I have installed Red Hat Linux 7.2. It was shutting down normally before. But all of a sudden, it doesn't seem to shutdown completely. I have the APMD turned ON. I even restarted it. But no success. What should I do ? Pleae help, ThanQ Raghu

When you say "doesn't seem to shutdown completely," what exact do you mean by that? It shutdowns to a certain step and then hangs! What is the step, service, before the hanging and is there any error message with it??? Lawrence

No error message is shown. The last step shown is "System Halted". Thats it. I will have to press the shutdown button on the CPU. Ofcourse, the next time when I start Linux, no error check is forced.

That is perfectly normal. If youre too lazy to press the power button yourself, then move back to windoze. Doesnt hurt anything, so dont worry.

Are you telling me that I just wasted my time trying to figure what was wrong with your system??? ARRRRRG... Lawrence

hey raghu, all you need to do is make sure apmd is running: ps -A | grep apmd if not, type: /usr/sbin/apmd then type: /sbin/modprobe apm you should be set. when i switched from Mandrake to Slackware i had the same issue. my computer quit powering itself down until i place the previously mentioned commands into an initialization script.

I never found apmd to be necessary. modprobing apm, however, is. I'm sure to modprobe apm. After that, my box shuts itself off fine. /sbin/lsmod lists which modules are loaded. "If youre too lazy to press the power button yourself, then move back to windoze." ?!! Whatever.