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?
No, I'm not the OP. But, I found a solution for my system.
During boot, I noticed an error line -- "BIOS fails cutoff age - ACPI might not work. Use acpi=force to fix."
So I did; the machine now actually turns off after shutdown.