System Halt

[Super2cool]

Whenever i try to shutdown my computer I always get this message:

[52.01502] system halt

I have tried the sudo shut down now - it does not work

I have tried apm poweroff=1 - It does not work as i do not have APM [ I have an old computer]

[spiderbatdad]

most of the commands have a related man page. try

man shutdown

you'll see the command requires an option like -h to power off the system. so

sudo shutdown -h now

not sure why it's freezing up. you can try acpi=off or noapic as a kernel option but your battery power monitor, if you have one, probably wont work.