Shutdown instead of reboot on halt?

[GullibleJones]

Sorry for this rather stupid question, but... Is there a way to make the system power down when the "halt" command is issued, instead of restarting? By default it seems to restart no matter what I do.

 

[marcelesflores]

shutdown -p NOW

 

[SirDice]

halt -p

See man halt, man reboot and man shutdown.

The system should not restart when the halt command is used (even without the -p) unless it panics during the shutdown.

 

[GullibleJones]

Yum, it restarts anyway with halt -p... It says this:

The system has halted
Press any key to reboot.

And pressing any key does indeed reboot.

It seems that the only way I can get a clean shutdown is by pressing the power key with ACPI enabled... And I can't use that method, because enabling ACPI kills my ethernet and wireless. Stupid buggy Acer BIOS.

 

[LateNiteTV]

after it says that, hit the power button and it will shut down.

 

[GullibleJones]

OMG... Duh! *smacks self on forehead*

 

[graudeejs]

Why do you use halt instead of
shutdown -p now - to power off machine
shutdown -r now - to reboot
?

 

[SeanC]

OMG... Duh! *smacks self on forehead*

Too funny. That made my day.

 

[DutchDaemon]

echo $HOSTNAME
$ homer

Ah.

 

[allbanddxer]

I have just recently seen a fresh install of 7.1 do this. Never happened before though... I just hit the power switch, but every once in a while my computer will turn its self back on, after about 20 minutes of being off. Checked the bios and I can't figure out what is going on...