Just thought I'd mention that on my 9 yr olds Gigabyte motherboard (itself about 3 yrs old), I went back into:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and changed it some more. Near the end of the file there were not 1 but 2 "-p" commands. Removing *both* of them got rid of the shutdown errors I was seeing under v9.0 of Mandrake. The last text now is "System Halted", as it should be (short of a complete powerdown). Hope this helps others who were having the same problem with older motherboards and v9.0... :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/
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