Can't shut down or reboot! [SOLVED]

[riki]

For the last week or so I am unable to shut down this machine in the conventional way. I am forced to press the Off button on the tower. Is there an explanation to this sudden glitch? Is anybody experiencing the same problem? Has an update messed things up? I am running Julia fully updated. Thanks.

[seeley]

Hi riki!
Sometimes it is a good idea to use the Terminal, please see "man shutdown" and maybe

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sudo shutdown now

or similar
will give you a hint (error message?).
seeley

[riki]

Hi riki!
Sometimes it is a good idea to use the Terminal, please see "man shutdown" and maybe

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sudo shutdown now

or similar
will give you a hint (error message?).
seeley

Thanks seeley for coming in. Tried your command but it doesn't shut the machine down. The desktop goes off alright and a black screen comes on with the Linux Mint logo which stays there until I press the Off button.

[seeley]

Hi riki!
I don't know, if it helps. There is a protocol "dmesg", you could run it:

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dmesg

Maybe you see an information.
seeley

[riki]

Hi riki!
I don't know, if it helps. There is a protocol "dmesg", you could run it:

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dmesg

Maybe you see an information.
seeley

It's now working! Go figure...

[riki]

The problem is back again! Even typing sudo shutdown now doesn't shut down the machine.

[Habitual]

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sudo halt

work?

[riki]

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sudo halt

work?

Yes Habitual, it has worked with your command but why is this happening now? Is it a bug? Thanks for your time.

[sgosnell]

It's possible the shutdown script became corrupted, or was changed somehow. I've also seen reports that the power manager has to be running for the panel shutdown button to work, even on a desktop machine. I haven't run a desktop in some time, so I can't verify that, and I always have the power manager running on my laptops.

[riki]

It's possible the shutdown script became corrupted, or was changed somehow. I've also seen reports that the power manager has to be running for the panel shutdown button to work, even on a desktop machine. I haven't run a desktop in some time, so I can't verify that, and I always have the power manager running on my laptops.

Sgosnell, the thing is that it is intermittent, sometimes it works, others not.

[donlinux]

If you are running open office and/or libre office and have the "enable systray quickstart" checked. <Tools-options-memory>, it will stop you from rebooting and/or shutting down using the menu.
It's happened to me with the last two mint distro's. I'm using Julia now and have the same issue.
If you uncheck the "enable systray quickstart" and then reboot, I think you'll find it's fixed.

[riki]

If you are running open office and/or libre office and have the "enable systray quickstart" checked. <Tools-options-memory>, it will stop you from rebooting and/or shutting down using the menu.
It's happened to me with the last two mint distro's. I'm using Julia now and have the same issue.
If you uncheck the "enable systray quickstart" and then reboot, I think you'll find it's fixed.

I'll do that and see if it fixes it this end. Back in a couple of days or so to confirm one way or the other. Many thanks donlinux.

[riki]

Donlinux,

It works! Since unchecking the "enable systray quickstart" the problem is gone. Many thanks for your help.

[jcoleman]

I had the same problem.

I just created 2 launchers on the desktop - one for shutdown and one for a restart

Shutdown command used sudo init 0

Restart command used sudo init 6

terminal comes up and asks for the password - system shutsdown or restarts

[jcoleman]

The shutdown restart problem seems to come and go - It showed up again - can't remember exactly when or what I had done.

Everytime I do a level 4 -5 update or a "dist-upgrade" things seem to get back in order.

You can tell me not to do that - it's OK - trouble is, it's available so I just gotta - can't help myself