No poweroff on shutdown

Treyarch · 2015-02-23 09:33:08

Hello everyone.

I currently have Arch installed, it works fine as fine can be with Legacy Mode on, installs with no issues. But, when I shutdown power never gets cut, and stays powered on with 2 errors.

I thought, I might try with Legacy mode off and Secure boot off. This causes arch to boot to a point of loading my GUI then the screen goes black, as in "off" black.

So, I'm not to sure what is going on here, any idea would be nice. My laptop model is: 14-R001TU (HP)

Last edited by Treyarch (2015-02-27 01:35:53)

Treyarch · 2015-02-27 01:31:39

Any progress is progress.

I got the black screen issue to go away by adding i915.invert_brightness=1 but now I am still stuck on the issue of it not powering off after shutdown.

I have tried
shutdown -p now
poweroff

neither of which work, they kill all processes then it just hangs, I followed a fix from Ubuntu by adding acpi=force to my kernal params, but this didn't do anything, after trying a few varients they offered I nearly broke my X server somehow, but I managed to bring that back. So yeah.... I am really lost as what there is left to try, I don't get this issue on Windows, and I have tried acpi_osi="Windows" and that's a nada, not sure if I'm doing it wrong, but either way this is fustrating as hell.

jiehong · 2015-02-27 15:21:41

Hello Treyarch,

You said that your machine stays on, with 2 errors displayed. It would be useful to tell use what are those two errors.

You could try to run `systemctl poweroff`, but this should be similar to `poweroff`.

However, you could try with `systemctl --force poweroff`, which does not wait for processes to be be shut-down, but unmount file-systems.

Eventually, you could try `systemctl --force --force poweroff`, which turns off your machine immediatly without killing any process, nor unmounting any filesystem, but beware of possible data loss.

Treyarch · 2015-02-28 03:31:14

Tried all of those, nothing.

The error I was talking about apperntly isn't an error: it was cgroup complaing about the missmatch between "" and "systemd"

jiehong · 2015-02-28 06:39:51

It seems that another thread is dealing with something that sounds very similar: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1372562

But I would say it's not what causes your machine not to shut down.

When you say that none of the previous commands I gave you worked, did they do something, but it did not end-up correctly (machine still on), or the commands didn't do anything?

You should check you logs after rebooting to see if anything suspicious happened during the previous shutdown (journalctl).

Treyarch · 2015-02-28 10:34:42

They do the same, either it hangs on the GUI, and I hear stuff powerdown
Or it kills X and just hangs on the messages of shutdown saying it has killed everything.

Feb 15 22:17:51 dvorak slim[247]: cinnamon-session[378]: WARNING: Requesting system shutdown...
Feb 15 22:17:51 dvorak cinnamon-session[378]: WARNING: Requesting system shutdown...
Feb 15 22:17:51 dvorak cinnamon-session[378]: WARNING: Attempting to shutdown using systemd...
Feb 15 22:17:51 dvorak systemd-logind[241]: System is powering down.

Was in the log that is related to shutdown recently.

Scimmia · 2015-02-28 14:26:19

What if you close down X first?

Treyarch · 2015-02-28 23:52:37

Still hangs on the shutdown screen, never powering off.

Treyarch · 2015-03-02 11:28:34

Still having the same problem, even after trying an assortment of acpi commands and checking around.

I have looked in my BIOS for any options relating to ACPI or anything else but nothing showed up.

Treyarch · 2015-03-06 06:32:56

I tried using systemctl poweroff today, to see if anything new arose, for the first time it to "reached target shutdown" and froze there, that is what Ubunut used to do before I had added the acpi=force parameter to my kernal params.

Aidonius · 2015-03-10 15:33:49

I had a similar issue with a Dell laptop from 2011 - inspiron n5110. The machine would hang at at a similar point in the shutdown process, as well as significantly delaying the reboot time(~30s). It seems it came from reinstalling windows on the machine, which apparently messed up the BIOS/ACPI interaction. Note that system shutdown was affected in both arch and windows.
To fix it I removed the cmos battery from the laptop and waiting a couple minutes before putting it back in. This should flash the BIOS and hopefully solve your problem. It seems that you have a UEFI system, if this is the case then I do not know whether this will help you or not.

Last edited by Aidonius (2015-03-11 18:21:47)

TheSaint · 2015-03-11 01:01:36

I may suggest to see whether WOL is the probable cause. Just try to disable it from BIOS.

Treyarch · 2015-03-11 19:49:27

I have no options for WakeOnLan

I have installed Ubuntu, and fixed this problem by appending "acpi=force" on my kernal params.

I have installed Win7 and Win8 with no issue, but Arch. Arch seems to be one special cookie.

TheSaint · 2015-03-11 19:54:35

Try a kernel-LTS.

Treyarch · 2015-03-12 02:39:36

pacman -S linux-lts

If so, I did this, rebooted as best i could, started up again and try shutting down, same issue.
What is so different about Arch to Ubuntu in relation to ACPI?

I might mess around with acpi_osi

TheSaint · 2015-03-12 11:25:26

You may investigate how the things are done in Ubuntu. Then try to replicate them in Arch.

Treyarch · 2015-03-14 05:08:42

I wouldn't know where to begin to find any information like that out...

Treyarch · 2015-03-24 02:27:07

Still not even closed to being solved ._..
I am tempted at this rate to move back to Windows since it is annoying, when I drop to tty's I can get to "reached target shutdown" but it nver powers off

nullified · 2015-03-24 02:48:39

Treyarch wrote:

pacman -S linux-lts

You have to do more than this and a reboot to see if lts fixes the problem.

Also, post the entire output of your last boot's journal logs, there might be something relevant in addition to those four lines.

pedrogabriel · 2015-03-24 15:46:16

I'm having the same issue.

Treyarch · 2015-03-26 02:17:05

http://ge.tt/1OwslxC2/v/0
Download for my journalctl

and I have rebooted by holding the powerbutton and tried rebooting again, to no sucsess, so I went back to 3.19.2-1

erickwill · 2015-03-31 23:10:43

What is your video card? I think that maybe is a video card related. I have 3 laptops and those how works with intel or intel/nvidia have this same issue.

Treyarch · 2015-04-03 02:00:26

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)

Treyarch · 2015-04-07 14:52:18

Still no sign of this being resolved... Just putting it out there, it's getting pretty fustrating.

fabianka · 2015-04-09 13:51:03

i'm having the same issue with my Acer e3-112 with an Intel Atom N2940.

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