Re: Shutdown

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

> 
> If I enter 'shutdown -p now' the system goes to the message 'acpi0: Entering 
> state 5' then the system freezes, the power button doesn't work and I have to 
> turn off the power supply.
> 
Apart from everything else you've mentioned, what happens if you
hold down the power button for ~5 seconds when this occurs?


                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb