In message <42734.66.93.249.254.1076972143.squirrel@www.vsrc.uab.edu>, "Emre Yi
ldirim" writes:
>shutdown -r now doesn't power the machine down.  I get:
>
>[.....]
>Done running shutdown hooks.
>Feb 16 16:53:01 cogito syslogd: Exiting on signal 15
>Feb 16 16:53:01 cogito syslogd: Exiting on signal 15
>syncing disks... 2 done
>rebooting...
>
>And then it hangs there.  I can hear the disk terminating its spin, but there 
>is no
>powerdown.
>
>Once upon a time Steven M. Bellovin proclaimed:
>> Can you do a suspend?
>


This is why my laptop still runs 1.6.2 with apm, instead of -current 
with acpi...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb