On Fri, 19.11.10 10:05, Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Try as I may, for some time now I can't get my machines to poweroff. I've > got 3 machines affected: A Toshiba Satellite Pro U400, a Samsung N210 > netbook and a white box old dual-core AMD64 (that one has an idiotic BIOS > that sometimes doesn't shutdown/poweroff properly, but now it is completely > consistent). > > Here on the Toshiba I've looked more closely into the issue: If I run > poweroff (from the Gnome menu or by hand as root) the machine shuts down > (sort of): CapsLock still toggles the LED (even on an USB keyboard), I can > alt-F? to change ttys (even over USB), but there is no other reaction to > keypresses. No HDD activity indication, nothing. I have to press the power > switch a long time (a short press initiates soft shutdown, no reaction to > that) to poweroff. Nothing relevant shows up in /var/log/messages. > > Only out of the ordinary configuration I can think of is that /usr is a > separate partition (really LVM2 volume). See my comments on the bug you filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642347 The bug is actually in NEEDINFO state. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel