Comment 35 for bug 987220
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: no complete shutdown | #35 |
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> Sometime it works with command: shutdown now -h
> It never works with command: halt
That refers to bug #880240, which is not the bug reported by the submitter. The 'halt' command does not do what people assume it does. You need to call either 'shutdown -h now', or 'poweroff', or 'halt -p'.
The bug here is with the system not shutting down when shut down from the GUI - that's not at all due to a user calling the wrong command from the commandline. Perhaps the GUI makes the same wrong assumption and calls 'halt' when it should not, or perhaps there's a hardware-specific issue with the poweroff handling. (This would not be the first time that had happened, but most such problems were long ago with a much less mature kernel.)