SuSE Linux: Version 8.0
You use a system equipped with an Intel Pentium 4 processor. When shutting the computer down, the system does not turn off automatically.
An SMP kernel (a kernel supporting multi-processor systems) has been installed on your system
instead of a standard single-processor kernel.
The article
"SMP Kernel Is Installed Despite Existing Single Processor Motherboard" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_p4.html)
describes the causes of this in detail.
Install the SuSE standard kernel that supports single-processor systems.
Start YaST2 and select the dialog
Remove the packagek_smp underSystem/Kernel and install instead k_deflt. The boot configuration will be automatically updated. After rebooting, the new installed kernel is used.
If you are using a multi-processor system and it does not turn off automatically when shutting the computer down, proceed as described in the article "" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_SMP_power-off.html).