On 01/17/2017 02:39 AM, Hans wrote: > I remember this discussion from sime time ago. Debian has changed a real > poweroff from "halt" to "halt -p". The second one is according to the manual. > > As far as I remeber, "shutdown" is just a wrapper fpr the halt command, but I > am not quite sure. > > But one thing was cleared: To poweroff a debian systenm, the command "halt > -p" > is recommended. > > Besides: This behaviour is also now in kali linux integrated, which was also > using the command "halt" for a long time. But now it's "halt -p", too, also > on > the livefile. > > Best > > Hans >
Hi, Thanks for the suggestions and insight to the problem. In my case: 1. The problem was with *any* "shutdown", from the command line, via halt or shutdown, or through menus of the window system. 2. The comment by j...@jretrading.com about unmount issues rings a bell, I think I saw something about failure to sync at one point. 3. I did try 'halt -p', same result. 4. There have been two or three updates since I sent my original question, and the system is now halting and powering off as expected. Bob
