On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 13:14 -0700, Jerry James wrote: > Fallout from usrmove, perhaps? I tried to shutdown a VM running Rawhide: > > Clicked on the power button symbol in the upper right hand corner of > the GDM desktop and chose "Power Off". Nothing. Clicked it again, > just in case. Nothing. > > Okay, so Ctrl-Alt-F3, login as root, and then this: > > [root@jerry-rawhide32 ~]# shutdown -P now > Unknown operation now > [root@jerry-rawhide32 ~]# man shutdown > > Nope, I had the syntax right. Well, there's a poweroff command, > right? Haven't used it for awhile... > > [root@jerry-rawhide32 ~]# man poweroff > man: can't open /usr/share/man/halt.8: No such file or directory > [root@jerry-rawhide32 ~]# man halt > > Okay, that worked. I don't need to pass any arguments, just plain > poweroff. Cool. > > [root@jerry-rawhide32 ~]# poweroff > UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION > proc-sys...misc.automount loaded active waiting Arbitrary Executable File > > ... followed by several more pages of systemd output piped to less. > > Okay, I give up. How am I supposed to turn this thing off? Shutting down can occasionally get a bit wiggy after a systemd version update. Was this right after you did a big F16 -> F17 yum update or anything? If so, you may find you have to just suck it up and hard power off one time, then it'll be back to working properly on the next boot. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
