Hi, At least the following four bugs seem to describe the same problem: Bug 132761 "2.6.8 poweroff always fails" Bug 134183 "When exiting the system, the system no longer powers down." Bug 135218 "acpi_power_off doesn't turn off HP Pavillion ZE4201" Bug 136673 "shutdown fails - last message: acpi_power_off called" The last output is Power down. acpi_power_off called but the power is not turned off. Nominating for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=FC3Blocker Regards, Stefan