On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:32:18AM -0500, Yasir Malik wrote:

> I want to shutdown my system using shutdown -p now,
> but whenever I do so, the system halts and asks me
> to press any key to reboot.

on my own machine (a x30 laptop from ibm) i only
have "shutdown -hp" working with apm compiled in
the kernel. it also works fine with acpi. i also
have a desktop machine where the apm device is
also found and shutdown works properly there.

can you try to build or try a kernel with the
apm enabled and then try shutdown -hp there ?

what is your machine : a laptop one ? desktop ?

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Gilbert Fernandes