[Mageia-dev] latest kernels not powering off machines on shutdown

Olivier Blin mageia at blino.org
Thu Aug 9 20:35:02 CEST 2012


Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> I've the impression that for some time, kernels do not power off machines
> anymore on shutdown.
> The kernel prints "System halted." but the machine remains powered.
> I've seen that with VMs and with real PCs.

That's more likely related to systemd.
How do you shutdown?

The shutdown and halt commands will not automatically power off the
system, you have to use halt -p from command line.

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino


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