[stevecook]

Can anyone help me with Mandrake 10.1 - on shutting down it gets as far as 'Halting Systems' in the verbose shutdown and then just hangs.
Someone suggested ticking acpi in the bootloader page but this made no difference.

[beginnertech]

I sotra have this problem with my laptop too. I needed to disable acpi totaly in order to get my ethernet card to connect, but on shutdown it goes all the way to power down. I just press the power off button when that happends because it shutsdown cleanly. If you do that, does it ask to check the file system becuase it shutdown un-cleanly or does it boot normal?

[tsunam]

you might want to try using shutdown -h now instead of the default. If i remember sometimes some systems have trouble with shutting down due to the acpi of the manufact. being buggy.

[stevecook]

After switching off maually it boots normally next time.
Will try the shutdown -h but unfortunately the Mandrake PC is down at the moment (I've borrowed some of it's bits).

[beginnertech]

"shutdown -h now" worked for me like once. After that its the same. I would'nt be too concerned since it shuts down w/o a file check after next boot. Just hit the button if you need to or keep it on

[foo]

Try:
# modprobe apm
# shutdown -h now

[stevecook]

I have now installed Windows on this PC and the MB is one that doesn't shut itself down but puts up a screen tellling you it's OK to switch off now - maybe that explains it?

[beginnertech]

Yeap, no ATX support. You gota hit da button.