Hello Forum: On 20/03/16 04:42, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > On 03/19/2016 09:40 PM, lina wrote: >> shutdown -h now >> >> doesn't work. it still reboot. >> > This sounds like an issue with the hardware or BIOS not with the > Debian OS, or with the Desktop environment. Though I have not had > this problem, I have had several others related to > shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate on various machines, but I know for > a fact that all such problems have been with the hardware/BIOS, not > the Debian software. I don't know enough about the iMac to offer > anything more.
Does recent iMac have a BIOS ? Jerome >> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Saturday 19 March 2016 23:37:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: >>>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, David Christensen wrote: >>>>> On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: >>>>>> Every time since I installed the system, >>>>>> >>>>>> every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. >>>>>> >>>>>> I checked online and tried several methods but still don't >>>>>> work. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can anyone suggest me how to solve it. >>>>> I'm having the same issue: >>>>> >>>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818311 >>>>> >>>>> So far, no progress in resolving it. >>>> No problem here. 'shutdown -h now' (as root) works as it >>>> should. Wheezy 64-bit, fully up-to-date; no desktop >>>> environments installed, just Openbox window manager. System >>>> boots to terminal, login there, then startx. I like to keep >>>> things simple. >>>> >>>> Maybe, problem is related to a desktop environment. >>>> >>>> B >>> No, I use a desktop, and have a desktop installed on several >>> other computers I administer. 3 x Wheezy, 2 x Jessie. TDE, >>> variously 14.0.3 and 3.5.13.2. All shut down without a problem. >>> >>> Lisi >>> >