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Demignom

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Registered: 2014-11-13

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Laptop not rebooting/powering off

Hello!

It seems I have a problem with rebooting and powering off.

The symptom: stuck on "Rebooting" message.

I've read the systemd wiki page. The wiki advises to read this article. In the article, they suggest to check if it's a kernel problem first, by trying to reboot with the following command:
sync && reboot -f

This command also does not work. From the article:
If either one of the commands does not work, it is a kernel bug, not systemd.

I have no idea what can fix this and have not found any clue on the wiki.

Thanks.

UPDATE:

I managed to "solve" the issue by using the lts kernel instead the latest one.

pacman -S linux-lts

Now powering off, rebooting and sleep working fine.

Last edited by Demignom (2015-03-20 10:30:59)

Treyarch

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2014-09-23

Posts: 50

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop not rebooting/powering off

I suffer from the same issue if I know what you mean, when I was on Ubuntu I found the solution was to add "acpi=force" to grub, I installed acpi and put that on my gummiboot configuration and it didn't change anything, as such I am yet to find a solution for this, so  I am in the same boat at the moment.

Demignom

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Registered: 2014-11-13

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop not rebooting/powering off

Well, I wasn't able to solve the problem yet, but at least got some updated info. After disabling NMI (by setting kernel.nmi_watchdog = 0 in /etc/sysctl.d/disable_watchdog.conf), issuing sudo systemctl restart results in the following message:

A stop job is running for Daemon for power management

And nothing else on screen. I have waited about half an hour, but it never finishes. Just to make it more clear, there's a picture.

I would really appreciate any help, since I don't know in which direction else to check.

Regards.

Demignom

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Registered: 2014-11-13

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop not rebooting/powering off

Issue solved. See first post.