Reboot won't work on netbook

Halt, suspend to disk and suspend to ram all work fine, but I can't get this machine to reboot - it goes through the usual halt procedure, but afterwards does not power off the hardware. Instead it powers off the screen, but I hear the fans going and the LEDs stay on. It's very odd. I have no problems just halting and powering back up, but I was wondering if anyone had experienced this, or knew what could be causing it?
Happy to post any relevant outputs. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

Just rebooting from tty1, using sudo reboot. I don't use gnome/kde etc, just dwm.
Occasionally the system does reboot, although most of the time it 'stalls' as described above.
And yes, having just tested, this happens when using sudo and while logged in as root. My usual account cannot reboot.
Last edited by saft (2010-12-29 17:09:28)

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