So, the bios is the latest offered by Dell... I tried different power settings - the result is the same. It does poweroff under Fedora as expected :( On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Scott wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, mark wrote: >>> Michael Klinosky wrote: >>>> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>>> Must be the Optiplex - Thursday afternoon, we just did poweroffs on >>>>> well >>>>> over 100 servers (HVAC maintenance this past Sat!), and it worked just >>>>> fine. >>>> >>>> I have the same issue with one of my boxes. 'Shutdown' will get to the >>>> point of actually powering down, but just sit at 'System halted'. >>>> >>> Use either poweroff or shutdown -h >>> >> I tried both - same result :( > > At that point I wonder about a bios setting. > > mark, not top posting > > _______________________________________________ > 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