Periodically, for no reason I can fathom, or trace to a specific cause, when I shutdown my machine, it fails to power off. The shutdown procedure unrolls, or unfurls, as expected, but at the point where it says at the console "Will now halt," instead of a power off taking place, the console displays an additional message: "Power off". At that point, my only alternative is to press the power buttom at the front of the machine for five seconds, which turns the machine off (this seems a gentler alternative to yanking out the power cord from the socket, as the psu on this 'puter has no power switch).
How would I go about trouble-shooting this erratic behavior? I hijacked another thread in which I posited that the problem was related to plugging in an external usb hard drive. This supposition has turned out to be false (post hoc ergo propter hoc), as so many of my suppositions do these days. ;-) There's nothing in the logs to distinguish the no poweroff shutdowns from the poweroff ones (I don't think; I have looked). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjg3n43.419.cu...@einstein.electron.org