[plug] power down- won't turn the pc off

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:01:15 +0000 (UTC)
bowden at iinet.net.au (Tim Bowden) wrote:

> I have three linux pc's here at work and two of them won't turn off
> when  'shutdown'.  They are happy to reboot no problem, but just sit
> waiting for a hard power off when I shutdown -h now.  I know this is a
> common problem, anyone got a fix?

You don't have APM (power management) compiled into the kernel.

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