[CentOS] shutdown -h doesn't

Fri Jan 16 11:22:45 UTC 2015
Dirk Deimeke <dirk at deimeke.net>

Answering Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org>
(Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:05:12 -0700):

Hi!

> I've got a fresh CentOS 7 test machine, fully patched.  The command:
>      shutdown -h now
> surprisingly does not halt the machine.  Instead it reboots it.  WTF?

Maybe it helps to poweroff explicitly?

shutdown -hP now

I had the same problem on SUSE machines.

Cheers

Dirk

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