Hi guys. When I try and shutdown my system via Putty using


I get the message "The system is going down to maintenance mode NOW !!"

and then nothing, it just sits there until I hard reset. Which log file should I be looking in for errors to problems when the system is trying to shut down?

Thanks.

Try:

Well, do you want to shutdown or reboot? Perhaps power management is disabled in the BIOS?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Thanks, I'll give halt a go.

I wanted to shutdown. 'reboot' works fine and reboots the system.

I think what cesman was trying to say is that you didn't tell the shutdown command what you wanted to do.
shutdown -h now = halt or shutdown the computer
shutdown -r now = reboot

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Xsecrets

Ah I see, thanks.