Neat - I'll give that a try. The machine is running Fedora right now...but maybe I'll reinstall CentOS :) On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Michael Klinosky wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > 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