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shutdown always reboots

Asked by RobertGemmell

No matter how I try to shut down Feisty, it always turns everything off correctly, and then reboots a few seconds later. I can suspend successfully without it rebooting, but it doesn't always restart successfully afterwards. I can't hibernate, probably because I don't have enough disk space. Is there some configuration setting that I can change to get Feisty to stay powered off after a shutdown? Or is this a bug to be reported?

I'm running on an IBM/Lenovo A52 desktop with two harddrives, sda and sdb. sda has WinXP installed and sdb has Feisty, which I've configured grub to boot as the default.

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- (a--deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

how are you shutting down?

try

 power on: any key in your bios

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RobertGemmell (rgbassoon) said : 		#2

I've tried shutting down by clicking the power "button" and selecting "Shut down", by pressing the real power button and selecting "Shut down", by logging off first, by bringing up a terminal session and issuing "shutdown -h". All of these will shut down the system, but a few seconds after power goes off it reboots, just as if I had specified "Reboot" instead of "Shut down".

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chantra (chantra) said : 		#3

You might want to give a try to :
poweroff
halt

If it still fails, it sounds like this is worth filing up a bug report.

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Best RobertGemmell (rgbassoon) said : 		#4

Now it's working fine. (As usual, when I tell someone about a problem, it goes away...)

It could still be something in my configuration that caused it to happen before. If I get it to fail again, I'll be back. Thanks.

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- (a--deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

Some computer bios have wake on keyboard entry

i.e. you could hit a key when you shut it down or also there's
a key combination stored in the buffer to make it power back on.

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chantra (chantra) said : 		#6

To be honest, that would have been a weird bug ;)

I remember when linux could not shutdown the hardware, but here, you talked about shutting down the hardware and starting it up again .... :)
Anyway, nice to hear your issue is solved.