Bug 22517

Summary:	No shutdown logout
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <xdriver>
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
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Version:	7.0
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Description Need Real Name 2000-12-19 15:27:01 UTC

When I hit the logout button on my GNOME desktop and check off shutdown the
OS does the normal shutdown procedures but it does not turn the computer
off.  The system is halted and I must do a hard reset and boot into MS-Win
in order to shutdown the machine.  I checked bugzilla for similar reports
and found some that said to change a line in the /etc/inittab file from
"respawn" to "once".  Bug report number 11323. After making that change the
problem still exists.

Comment 1 bcling 2000-12-21 03:46:35 UTC

Been trying to validate this on several machines but only have tried two so far
(Gateway 9300 laptop and AMD K6-2/400 w/ ASUS P5-A).  Both exhibit the same
problem.  Shutdown from command line as root halts properly, with power off.

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2000-12-21 04:15:45 UTC

Fixed in our development version.

A (untested, but approximately right) workaround is (as root):

# rm /usr/bin/halt
# cat > /usr/bin/halt
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/poweroff
^D
# chmod 0755 /usr/bin/halt

The problem is that the shutdown is invoking /usr/bin/halt instead
of /usr/bin/poweroff, and halt, for reasons understood only by the
maintainers of SysV init, doesn't power off any more.