[PLUG] Shutdown won't power down

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> Still, none of 'shutdown -h', 'halt', 'halt -p', nor shutdown/halt from
> the graphic display will power off my computer.  It just goes through the
> shutdown process and where the last thing to print to the screen is:
> 
>     Halting.
>     Power down.
> 
> Then it just sits there powered up and doing nothing.  How can I
> get this to power off?

  Could the box have a time delay switch that needs to be disabled? I know
this is a stretch: my box requires one to hold the power button in until it
finally recognizes that I really mean it. OTOH, when I issue, 'shutdown -h
now' it does so.

Rich