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Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)
Kernel 2.6.28.1 on an i686

localhost login: root
[root@localhost ~]# halt

Broadcast message from root (tty0) (Sat Jan 24 02:09:45 2009):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
Stopping sshd: [  OK  ]
Stopping crond: [  OK  ]
Shutting down kernel logger: [  OK  ]
Shutting down system logger: [  OK  ]
Starting killall:  [  OK  ]
Sending all processes the TERM signal... 
Sending all processes the KILL signal... 
Saving random seed:  
Syncing hardware clock to system time hwclock is unable to get I/O port access:  the iopl(3) call failed.

Unmounting file systems:  
Halting system...
[42949469.120000] System halted.