On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:47:14AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> OK, I just updated to v8-3 and have the latest initscripts, too.
I tried
> to shut down twice (I invoked sudo systemctl daemon-reexec before the
> second time), and I still cannot power down by clicking on the power off
> button. The screen goes black, but the mouse pointer remains on the black
> screen and is movable, but nothing further occurs. I have to go to a
> different virtual terminal, log in as root, and run systemctl isolate
> poweroff.target. Then, it powers off.
What do the logs say?
And what do the shutdown and poweroff commands do?
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences