[SOLVED] Mint 19 Does not Shut Down

[Dork Thirty]

I've just installed Linux Mint 19 (Tara), Cinnamon, 64-bit. I'm using an ASUS ROG Strix Scar, 17", i7-8550H. Install went smoothly enough; I made a partition on the SSD for Mint and I didn't run into any display issues from the NVidia card or what have you.

I'm having two issues, but I'll make a separate post for the other. The major issue is this: the computer won't shut down. When I ask it to restart or shutdown it will start the process, then hang on the desktop with no pointer active and no keyboard controls. I have to do a hard shutdown. It starts up just fine after, but this is obviously incorrect.

I need the device for school/work (running CERN ROOT for "small" data sets), so I have to get this reconciled. Any ideas or direction? Thanks!

[Lord Boltar]

Have you tried to reboot or shutdown through the terminal? Does this work?

For shutdown:

sudo poweroff

For restart:

sudo reboot

[Dork Thirty]

Have you tried to reboot or shutdown through the terminal? Does this work?

For shutdown:

sudo poweroff

For restart:

sudo reboot

I tried sudo poweroff and everything just froze in place with no inputs active like before.

[Tomgin5]

Just my 2 cents worth. Make sure the EUFI/ Bios is in Legacy mode and not active with Fast boot. 8 installs of LM 19 with no failures. ONLY Bios/EUFI issues. Some booted fine in EUFI but had issues (Like freezing). Some required a fresh install.

[Lord Boltar]

Have you updated the nVidia drivers yet by default Linux does not have nVidia drivers it uses nouveau drivers which work ok on older nVidia cards but not so great on newer ones

To add the Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA in Linux Mint and update the software sources in the terminal, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt update

Close terminal then open the Driver Manager and install latest nVidia drivers - then reboot hope this helps

Have you tried to reboot or shutdown through the terminal? Does this work?

For shutdown:

sudo poweroff

For restart:

sudo reboot

I tried sudo poweroff and everything just froze in place with no inputs active like before.

[Dork Thirty]

Just my 2 cents worth. Make sure the EUFI/ Bios is in Legacy mode and not active with Fast boot. 8 installs of LM 19 with no failures. ONLY Bios/EUFI issues. Some booted fine in EUFI but had issues (Like freezing). Some required a fresh install.

What's legacy mode, and how do I get into it?

[Dork Thirty]

Have you updated the nVidia drivers yet by default Linux does not have nVidia drivers it uses nouveau drivers which work ok on older nVidia cards but not so great on newer ones

To add the Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA in Linux Mint and update the software sources in the terminal, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt update

Close terminal then open the Driver Manager and install latest nVidia drivers - then reboot hope this helps

I'll give this a go. Would this cause shutdown issues?

[Dork Thirty]

Fixing the Nvidia drivers seems to have solved the problem. Thanks!

[Lord Boltar]

Please mark this as Solved

Fixing the Nvidia drivers seems to have solved the problem. Thanks!

[vladtepes]

I've been experiencing a shutdown problem too, albeit slightly different.

Also LM19. i7 using onboard graphics ( no separate GPU).

If I choose power off it does.. then reboots and starts up again. So a power off does exactly the same as a restart.
Hard shutdown with power switch required.

Any ideas?

[alexis19apl]

Hi Guys;

Experience the same "Graphic issue" of freezing on my i7 7700HQ with GTX 1050 de 4GB, decided to change everything on Bios and one thing was "Discrete" to "UMA" that I never used before in my life, this is what happens:

• OS stop freezing
  OS now detects intel Graphics card.

So maybe there to possible root causes for the fail:

Bios setting "Discrete" create sort of Intel/Nvidia switchable usage based on system demand, that is not tuned for Linux.
Nvidia graphics have heavy issues with Linux and that makes the unstable graphical environment and that's why freeze.
Based on this, what options do I have? this is what i did:

• sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
  sudo sh ~/Software/NVIDIA-Linux-*.run
  apt remove nvidia-current nvidia-settings

Then

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install nvidia-390
  Restart

Even that still freeze when restart o shutdown, i did a fresh isntall with all this steps without success. Please please help me!

[Russell55]

Finally found & followed the above for removal & install of NVIDIA after 3.5 days of trying various processes and finally have a clean shutdown.
To all those having shutdown issues give this a go.
Many many thanks.

[chard]

Have you updated the nVidia drivers yet by default Linux does not have nVidia drivers it uses nouveau drivers which work ok on older nVidia cards but not so great on newer ones

To add the Proprietary GPU Drivers PPA in Linux Mint and update the software sources in the terminal, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt update

Close terminal then open the Driver Manager and install latest nVidia drivers - then reboot hope this helps

Have you tried to reboot or shutdown through the terminal? Does this work?

For shutdown:

sudo poweroff

For restart:

sudo reboot

I tried sudo poweroff and everything just froze in place with no inputs active like before.

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@Lord Boltar » Because a newly-installed Mint Mate refused to suspend; shutdown; or reboot, I was ready to move on to another distro until I read your post suggesting moving from an open-source graphic device driver to an nVidia one. It worked! Thanks -- You are a genius!