Need help fixing a Redhat 7.3 install

[majkmushrm]

I'm new to Linux and just installed Redhat 7.3 on one of my machines at home. Everything seems to be running fine except when I shutdown. It doesn't. I've given the machine everything I know from logoff -> shutdown to halt -d -p to shutdown -F to powerdown and it gracefully brings down all the processes. and then hangs. While I still had redhat support, they suggested I had an old BIOS and an upgrade would help. I have a new BIOS, does the same thing. At that point RedHat gave up.

Anybody got any ideas?

 

[RabidPenguin]

You may try killing each process one at a time and shutting down after. Once it shuts down properly then you have a better idea of which process is hanging. IMHO though you should upgrade to RedHat 8.0 as it seems to be very stable and many of the bugs I noticed in 7.3 are corrected.

 

[RiezalR]

I had this similiar problem before. It kills all processes, then states 'System Halted'. I couldn't find the problem and never solved it. What i did was give the 'shutdown -h now' command to shut the system down and kill all the processes. Once that was done, i had no other choice but to press the Power button on my CPU for 5 secs for the power to go off. This was a common problem for a few other of my friends as well.

 

[pupu]

You have a problem with APM. Try to play with kernel's configuration - General setup/Power Management support/ Advanced Power Management BIOS support/Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off in kernel configuration.