laptop doesn't power off

[b. f.]

On 8/11/09, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:

> If 'shutdown -h now' does work - to the extent that the power button
> then works without battery removal - then it's a different scenario.

It seems to be the same scenario -- at least with regards to the
powerdown not working -- although we cannot know if it is for the same
reason without more debugging information.  My reading of Tim's first
post is that after a halt ('shutdown -h now' is just a 'halt' with a
slightly more graceful exit), toggling the power button failed to turn
off the machine.

b.