On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:01 pm, you wrote:
> George Petri wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Everyone knows that certain versions of Windows, when told to "Shut
> > Down", actually choose to reboot instead. And it seems that my Linux
> > installation has caught this horrible disease (actually it's had this
> > problem ever since I first installed it).
> >
> > Basically, if I select "Shutdown" from kdm or type in "halt" or
> > "poweroff" or "telinit 0", it gives lots of
> > shutting-down-whatever-service messages and then it says:
> >
> > System is halted.
> >
> > So far so good but then it says "stopping all md devices" and reboots.
> > Arggh!!!
> >
> > Does anyone know why this happens?
> > ..................
>
> I haven't the foggiest why this happens, but I have the same problem
> (sometimes). I can shutdown normally twice, but the third time, it will
> reboot instead.
>
> ShalomOut
> Chal
>
> Registered Linux user 217118
I have this same problem with RedHat 7.1. So it must not be distro specific.
