[mythtv-users] Mythtv won't power down after upgrade to 0.24.1

[Tim Draper]

On 13 June 2011 09:20, Giles <gbirchley at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm running mythtv under Fedora 14 86x64
> I'm having some problems with my machine not powering off after I select
> exit and shutdown. These have only arisen since upgrading to 0.24.1 from
> 0.24. Shutdown command in the backend setup is:
>   sudo /sbin/halt -p
> on executing shutdown via mythtv I get the usual dialogue finishing in:
>  Halting system...
>  [1234.23456] system halted
> The motherboard clicks like it's been shutdown but doesn't power off.
>
> Executing sudo /sbin/halt -p from the terminal works as expected.
> Shutting down from the desktop also works okay. I haven't changed any
> backend options since upgrading to 0.24.1, although I added the option
> "exit 0" to the backend in an attempted fix (it was blank before).
>
> Anyone got any idea what's going on..?
>
> Giles Birchley
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i use 'sudo /usr/sbin/pm-suspend'. (puts pc into S3 sleep)
or maybe 'sudo shutdown -P now' for an alternative shutdown command.

might be an option if you cant get the halt -p command working... sorry i
cant be much more help, but they both work for me in 0.24.1 (mytbuntu 10.10)
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