Dear All,

I am having the following problem. First of all a few facts:

- computer is old: Compaq Presario series 700 laptop with AMD Duron and 256 MB ram (about 15 years old)
- It is a fresh install of 16.1, nothing added, nothing changed save for the keyboard layout.

On boot there are two errors but supposedly not crucial. One has to do with SMbus not being present, the second with VIA686a chipset address. I found the solutions for both but have not implemented them yet.

Anyway, the problem is the computer does not turn off. If I do command prompt"shutdown -- now" or"reboot" or from GUI the screen goes blank (no command prompt or such, no status, nothing) but the laptop remains to be turned on. If I force turn off by holding the power button there is a warning on next bootup, something to do with recovering journal. How can I go about solving this and knowing what is going wrong?

Before antix I installed Puppy Linux which had many other problems but it did turn off normally.

I thank you for your help and suggestions in advance.

Regards,

Odsisej

Try using or

Thank you for your reply. I treied both poweroff options and none change the behaviour of the computer. It remains on with a blank screen."shutdown -h" produces a list of possible arguments.

Is there a log file available in which shutdown pocedures and results are stored?

Odisej

logfiles are in /var/log
and, during live session, /var/log/live

You can check out /var/log/syslog

Thanks. Will check them out.

Odisej

Just to finish this thread. Well, did not find a direct solution. But I did setup the system so it boots into console which I wanted in the first place and applied all the solutions for via686a chipset and vt569. The computer now turns off if I issue a poweroff comand from console but not if I startx and then try to turn it off.

Odsiej

Well. Back when we used Legacy Grub. I had the same Issue on a IBM 390 E and what I did was < I think, happended long ago and my memory aint what it used to be >
added to the kernel line. You might want to search for that in case it helps.