On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/15/2012 09:12 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 18:42 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > >> I've recently noticed that my classroom machines are acting > >> differently when using the power button to shut down. With past > >> versions and originally with Fedora 16, the power button would > >> cause it to do the same as a shutdown. But know it seems to go > >> into a hibernation mode, and the power light is blinking. > >> > >> Attempts to get it to wake up fail, and only pressing and holding > >> the power button in to shut it down, or removing power will get it to > >> go off. Then for some reason, it will then boot up, and then restart > >> again before going to a normal operation? > >> > >> Is there some setting to get the power button to do a shutdown > >> and not a hibernation or sleep? > > The system is not designed to have you shutdown the operating system by > > holding the power button. That is a hardware related issue. If you try > > that while running Windows it would give you an error message when you > > rebooted. > > To shut down you can either use the option in the menu or run: poweroff > > or run: shutdown -h > > > Pushing the power button, as opposed to holding it, is an ACPI event > that is trapped. The action is controlled by > /etc/acpi/events/powerconf. That defaults to running > /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh. That script checks to see if a power > manager is running. If so, the event is passed to the power manager. > Is not, the system runs the shutdown command. > > Now, depending on what desktop you are running, you set what you > want to happen by setting the action in the power manager setup. > (This is under System Settings -->Power in Gnome.) > > Mikkel --- I don't disagree with what you are saying but getting used to shuting down an operating system using the power button is a bad practice. For example on my machine holding the power button shuts down the machine while pressing the button puts the machine to sleep. I agree this is configurable. But that is in Fedora Linux, on other systems it is treated as a system error. -- ======================================================================= A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
