Re: Problem with halt

2013-12-26 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 29 October 2013 00:13, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > Hello everyone, > [...] > shutdown doesn't stop power for my computer. [...] Hello again, After that I had to reinstall Debian. This time I didn't mixed Stable and Testing. I think that initially I had the same problem, but now (3.2 + Bi

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-14 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani wrote: >> > Hi Curt, > > so you used: > shutdown -hP now I think I did shutdown -h -P now (that's what the other guy said he did, no?) Looking at man page maybe the trailing -P was ignored? Or it doesn't make any difference, perhaps? > and that did not produce th

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Thursday 14 November 2013 06:40 PM, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani wrote: In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which points to script that could run shutdown -hP Thank you. I was unfamiliar with the program alacarte; however, prior to resorting to s

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-14 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani wrote: >> > In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which > points to script that could run > shutdown -hP Thank you. I was unfamiliar with the program alacarte; however, prior to resorting to such an expedient I have experimented with the -

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Wednesday 30 October 2013 02:17 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: On 29 October 2013 17:13, Bob Proulx mailto:b...@proulx.com>> wrote: Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The > experience is positive, with one ex

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-14 Thread Kailash Kalyani
On Thursday 14 November 2013 12:45 AM, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-13, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-13, Antonio Paiva wrote: Have you tried using 'shutdown -h -P now' ? No. I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simpl

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-13 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-13, Curt wrote: > On 2013-11-13, Antonio Paiva wrote: >> >> Have you tried using 'shutdown -h -P now' ? > > No. > >> I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after >> shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simply set that as the >> exit command for my

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-13 Thread Antonio Paiva
> > > I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after > > shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simply set that as the > > exit command for my window manager, and I have no idea how you might go > > about doing it in a desktop env. > > You'd type the command in an

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-13 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-13, Antonio Paiva wrote: > > Have you tried using 'shutdown -h -P now' ? No. > I was having similar issues with some machines not powering down after > shutdown and that solved it for me. In my case, I simply set that as the > exit command for my window manager, and I have no idea how

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-13 Thread Antonio Paiva
> > Sometimes the machine powers off, sometimes it doesn't (I believe it > says Power Down on the screen) and I must press the button for about > five seconds to cajole it to do so. It actually amounts to a minor > annoyance, as the shutdown procedure is executed correctly (except for > the electr

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-13 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-11, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > Hello, > > I tried non-free firmware and it didn't work. So I decided to give > ubuntu and halt/power down doesn't work in latest Ubuntu as well. > > So I see two option - something bad happend with my BIOS or there is a > regression in kernel... I

Re: Problem with halt

2013-11-11 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
Hello, I tried non-free firmware and it didn't work. So I decided to give ubuntu and halt/power down doesn't work in latest Ubuntu as well. So I see two option - something bad happend with my BIOS or there is a regression in kernel... Thanks for help, Wawrzek -- Dr Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański

Re: Problem with halt

2013-10-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 29.10.2013 23:39, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski a écrit : On 29 October 2013 08:00, wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power for my c

Re: Problem with halt

2013-10-29 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 29 October 2013 08:00, wrote: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > >> Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The >> experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power >> for >> my computer. >> > [...] > > http://www.debian.org

Re: Problem with halt

2013-10-29 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 29 October 2013 17:13, Bob Proulx wrote: > Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > > Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The > > experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power > for > > my computer. > > How did you move from Ubuntu to Debian? Fr

Re: Problem with halt

2013-10-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The > experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power for > my computer. How did you move from Ubuntu to Debian? Fresh installation? I have this very, very vague memory that

Re: Problem with halt

2013-10-29 Thread davidson
On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power for my computer. I tried to play with settings in /etc/default/halt - both 'poweroff' and 'halt' have t

Problem with halt

2013-10-28 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
Hello everyone, Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power for my computer. I tried to play with settings in /etc/default/halt - both 'poweroff' and 'halt' have the same effect (or rather I should w

Re: problem with "halt" command to shutdown

1997-05-10 Thread stick
> > Hi, > i used the "halt" command to shutdown my linux box and i receive a > message like: "unable to find the runlevel, using hard halt" > After that, my computer was totally frozen. So, i used the reset to reboot > my computer. My partition appear wasn't properly unmounted and a check was > n

problem with "halt" command to shutdown

1997-05-09 Thread Dany Dionne
Hi, i used the "halt" command to shutdown my linux box and i receive a message like: "unable to find the runlevel, using hard halt" After that, my computer was totally frozen. So, i used the reset to reboot my computer. My partition appear wasn't properly unmounted and a check was needed. Fortunal