On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 19:17, James Nickerson wrote: > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 02:18 pm, Ryan Bowman wrote: > > Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try them out shortly, however, I > > suddenly developed an odd problem. Typing halt now has the effect of > > reboot. I checked that symlink /usr/bin/halt still points to /sbin/halt, > > so why is it suddenly rebooting every time I shut down? > > Sometimes that's just your hardware. Does it shut down properly in other > distros? I have one machine that I never could really get to shut down. I > just halt/reboot'd it and cut the power after it finished the halt part. > Good luck, though, finding something more elegant.
It's most like hardware related, I agree. Could be apm settings too. I have a Dell machine at work running windows 98 that does this. After windows shuts down, instead of powering off, it just reboots. Oddly enough, sometimes it will power down. Things to check include BIOS power settings, BIOS firmware upgrades, etc. Power management can be finicky. Michael > > -James Nickerson > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
