I may do that... However, being that it works in Fedora - was hoping maybe it was something else :) On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Eero Volotinen wrote: > On 1/4/10 10:57 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> I've got a Dell Optiplex GX240 I am running CentOS 5.4 >> (kernel 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.centos.plus)... When I had Fedora 11 and 12 on >> it, I could issue a poweroff command and the machine would power itself off. >> However, under CentOS it doesn't turn the machine off whatsoever. When it >> completes, the machine is still running with a message of "system halted." >> Then I have to physically hit the power button to turn it off... I >> believe at some point I did try to issue a shutdown command - but had the >> same results... >> >> Anyone have any recommendations or suggestions? > > buggy acpi support on server? Try updating to latest bios? > > -- > Eero > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 252-478-8087 (Home) 919-890-8117 (Work) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim Architect Keros http://sourceforge.net/projects/keros _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos