February 25th, 2005
Found out why my computer wasn't powering off when I issued a halt command, and instead just sat there in some powered-down-but-not-off zombie state. I had apmd installed well enough, which is the daemon that takes care of such things, but I had forgotten to enable the kernel module. After a modconf and a visit into kernel/arch/i386/kernel and a turning of the apm module therein, the computer powered down like it was supposed to.