Arch Linux

linuxyxsh

Member

Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 3

Help - cannot shutdown the machine, always reboot

Hi I has used archlinux for a year. Since kernel 2.6.29, I cannot properly shut down the machine.  Every time I run "sudo halt " in terminal, the shutdown process starts normally, all services are stopped, the hard drive stops normally. But then it reboots itself

More than that, if I run halt command at grub, the machine will reboot too. But after I run halt command at grub for the second time or or the third time, the machine shuts down eventually

This happens in my machine for kernel 29 and 30

Do you guys experience the same problem?  Thanks

anotherjohn

Member

Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 10

Re: Help - cannot shutdown the machine, always reboot

I use 'sudo poweroff'.

anotherjohn

Member

Registered: 2009-09-23

Posts: 10

Re: Help - cannot shutdown the machine, always reboot

Whoops, just realise that 'poweroff' is a symbolic link to 'halt' :blush:

tomd123

Developer

Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 565

Re: Help - cannot shutdown the machine, always reboot

I always used sudo poweroff and it worked. fty, I've been using kernel 2.6.31 for a while now.

speng

Member

Registered: 2009-01-17

Posts: 136

Re: Help - cannot shutdown the machine, always reboot

I always use 'sudo init 0' to turn off my PC and 'sudo init 6' to reboot it.

3 and 5 I use for turning off/on X.