[CentOS] RHEL/Centos 8 power off issue

Mon Apr 5 05:30:00 UTC 2021
Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 5:18 AM R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I tried a few things, I have a few docking stations, and they all
> seem to show that problem.
>
>
> Can't shut it down, remotely, while in a docking station. Also,  when in
> a docking station and using  the laptops  keyboard and LCD screen,  and
> power down the laptop in RHEL/Centos, just results into a reboot.  It
> does that  with RHEL/Centos 7 and 8.
>
>
> When I  boot it with Centos 6,  the behaviour is as expected,  it just
> shuts down. So I guess this issue  was "introduced" after Centos 6
> somewhere?
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Ron
>
> On 3/28/21 9:17 PM, R C wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I have a laptop, in a docking station. When running RHEL/Centos 7 I
> > could shut it down and power it off by using 'shutdown -h now' In did
> > a new install of Centos 8 (and also RHEL 8) and when I do a "shutdown
> > -h now" it just reboots (behaves the same as if I'd do a reboot).
> >
> >
> > Is that a known issue?
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> >
> > Ron
> >

We faced the same problem on one machine.
We had to disable wake up on lan in bios settings.
After that, the machine stayed shut down with the "poweroff" command.

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Lee