ShutdownReboot Problem

Hi Schraalhans, Yes you're right. I checked the man pages for halt & shutdown and found that unless the system is in runlevel 0 or 6 and halt is called, shutdown is invoked instead. Also I found out that shutdown has an option, -P, which causes the environment variable INITHALT to be set to POWEROFF. Probably this (shutdown -hP now) will do the shutdown job... I also switched to a console and issued a reboot command to see if any error messages were being reported but figure out anything. The last message displayed on the console is something like "Synchronizing SCSI disks"... I also checkedvar-log-messages but the only error message I saw is: ... Apr 23 12:30:37 localhost kernel: found SMP MP-table at 000ff780 Apr 23 12:30:37 localhost kernel: DMI 2.3 present. Apr 23 12:30:37 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 Apr 23 12:30:37 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpiid0x01 lapicid0x00 enabled) Apr 23 12:30:37 localhost kernel: Processor #0 6:13 APIC version 20 ... I think the system is using ACPI instead of APM. I don't know what Doze is. So I couldn't try anything about that...

By the way the laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-A417M

Thank you very much for your valuable suggestions, and if necessary I'm ready to provide more information about the system...

Alper