Has it always done this?
> i contacted the author of the poweroff script but
> he says that this means it must be a kernel problem
More likely a BIOS problem that is weel known.
> also i cant give u the complete listing of the cpu
> registers since it occurs at the last stage
> of shutdown and i cant copy it to a file
> and am too lazy to write it down
Write down the first few lines at least ...
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