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Re: [SOLVED] Excalibur 6 - cannot shut down from terminal

dummy@example.com (stultumanto) — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:30:31 +0000

I remember being confused by halt very early on and switching to shutdown --poweroff now and eventually just poweroff. (Confusingly, according to the manual, shutdown --halt -h or shutdown -H -h will not power down!)

Re: [SOLVED] Excalibur 6 - cannot shut down from terminal

dummy@example.com (chris2be8) — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:28:58 +0000

After a bit of investigation I found /etc/default/halt tells halt what to do by default. That may be why it's behaviour has changed.

Found by whereis halt which said halt has *two* man pages, 1 in section 8 and 1 in section 5. man halt shows the 1 in section 8. man 5 halt mentions /etc/default/halt which is what you really wanted to know about.

Re: [SOLVED] Excalibur 6 - cannot shut down from terminal

dummy@example.com (josh.viklef) — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:19:09 +0000

sudo halt -p
works.

Thanks.

Re: [SOLVED] Excalibur 6 - cannot shut down from terminal

dummy@example.com (chris2be8) — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:17:07 +0000

Try sudo shutdown -h now
And man shutdown for details.

NB. man halt lists shutdown in the "See also" section. And look at the -p option.

[SOLVED] Excalibur 6 - cannot shut down from terminal

dummy@example.com (josh.viklef) — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:49:19 +0000

If I shut down from terminal (command sudo halt), it only halt the system, not shut down, ie LEDs remain lit.

How to shut down the laptop from terminal? Hardware button is working, shut down from desktop environment is working, but terminal command not.

Devuan 5 is ok.