From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: When I try to halt the machine using the "poweroff" command, it seems to act mostly like the "halt" command, but right after the message comes up telling me that hda (my hard drive) has been flushed, error messages scroll onto the screen faster than I can read them, and keep scrolling indefinitely. They look perhaps like kernel error messages. The "halt" command works properly. Right before the "System halted" message comes on screen comes a message telling me that hda (hard drive) and hdb (CD-ROM) have been flushed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.53-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type "poweroff". 2. Press the Enter key. Actual Results: Unending flow of cryptic error messages Expected Results: Machine should have powered off or at least halted. Additional info: Motherboard: iWill KA266plus Hard drive: Quantum FireballP LM20.5 CD-ROM: Pioneer ATAPI Model DR-A04S 0105 My motherboard has an onboard USB controller. I have a USB scanner attached to it, an Epson Perfection 636U. Also, if I shut down using the GNOME2 logout dialog (from my GARNOME setup), I get the same results as when I type "poweroff". (To shut down from GNOME2, bring up the logout dialog, check the "Shut Down" option, and then click the "Ok" button.)
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