foxint wroteI used Putty and I loged in as: root...Password; rune...then I typed: sudo poweroff - the music stopped and the rotating arrows appreade...like the Chinese snakes eating their tails...
I could not reconnect to the Pi-3 and had to pull the power cord out and re-attach....surely this is not good???? It is taking some time for the Pi-3 to connect.... I will unplug it again and see if it will load.....
It started automatically without me logging on via the browser...strange....I wonder if it really closed....this really is confusing.
Is this good...bad...OK....still cannot close it from the browser....
Any ideas???
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Hi Foxint
What you describe is perfectly normal behavior. When you type 'poweroff' it sends a command to the operating system to shutdown, which it does because the music stops and the user interface (circley thing) stops responding. This is as it should be. Bear in mind that the pi has no soft power off / soft power on (there is another active thread here about that), and the pi will require you to power down by pulling the plug after it has finished its shutdown procedure.
When you run the reboot command, it does a 'poweroff' and then sends a reset command to the pi. It then reboots and once the pi has finished loading, thats when your browser will reconnect automatically after an extended period of the rotating circle.
What it seems is the problem is that when you click the 'shutdown' item via the web interface, it is not executing the 'poweroff' command, and as such, is continuing to play and make noise and all of that. I can't comment on that, but I would suggest reinstalling the system as suggested earlier, and see if that fixes things. It is most unusual that the UI not work as the shutdown is one of the most basic elements of the RuneOS.
Please give this a shot and let us know how you go
-D
