Dec 05

Automatic shutdown in Ubuntu

Filed under: Free and open source software — Matthew Revell at 9:25 am

When I ran Debian, the shutdown process would never power off my machine. The processor fan would stop and the screen would read “Power down”, leaving me to press the button. A minor irritant.

I had the same problem with Ubuntu, until yesterday evening. After reading a few forum posts which all seemed very involved and a bit disjointed, I added:

apm power_off=1

to /etc/modules

Now, Ubuntu powers down automatically. Hooray.

2 Responses to “Automatic shutdown in Ubuntu”

  1. Anonymous says:
    December 5th, 2004 at 10:40 am

    That was it? Why isn’t this in Ubuntu by default, I wonder? File a bug?

    Aq.

  2. Matthew Revell says:
    December 6th, 2004 at 9:58 am

    Looks as though this has been addressed for the next release, Hoary.