Reboot On Shutdown

I am currently using SuSE 9.2 and the only problem I have is shutting down.

SuSE will reboot instead of powering off and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix this on my Compaq x1000 laptop.

Hi duress,

I have the same problem on my Acer Ferrari 3000 (also running SuSE 9.2 Pro). First I got the advice to give the parameters

apm = off acpi = off

at start-up. When I shutdown, having used these parameters, looking at the details (by pressing F2), the system finally reached -- is it init 0? (apparently this means that the system is shutdown) -- and I was able to power-off manually.

However, I was a bit afraid of giving these parameters at start-up, since APM and ACPI are packages that have to do with power management (including regulation of CPU frequency and so on): my fans seemed to go crazy.

I decided to ignore this problem, since I run a dualboot system, and was able to shutdown correctly from Windows XP. But then -- and this is kind of strange -- I somehow discovered that my computer shutdown correctly, if I disconnected the power cable before shutting down. Just plugging the cable out, letting the laptop run on batteries for a few seconds, enough to tell it to shutdown, seemed to "solve" the problem: "shutdown" finally meant "shutdown" and not "reboot". Or at least making it tolerable.

I don't know why it works this way on my system, but perhaps it does on yours as well? Anyway it is worth trying I suppose. If you should run along and find a better solution, please post it and let me -- and probably others -- know!

Regards,
David

I managed to fix the reboot on shutdown problem by installing the latest kernel of the day with apt4rpm.

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/