Eric Edwards <ese002@news9.exile.org> wrote:
> Shutdown works fine, powering off the machine like I would expect.
> Gnome, however, doesn't quite get there. The OS shuts down and the
> video goes off, but the power light is still on and the power supply
> fan is still turning. It is rather like a low power suspend state
> common with laptops except without the benefit of a still-running OS.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

Do you use splashutils compiled into the kernel (not initrd)? There's a
bug where /lib/splash/cache is incorrectly mounted and can't be cleanly
unmounted.

> A possibly related issue:
> The screen blanker doesn't turn off the monitor, ever, despite the
> Display Power Management settings. I just get a glowing black screen.

Are you using APM or ACPI? Sometimes they conflict with each other, and
you may want to turn off APM in the kernel.

Regards,
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*rt