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chra

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Registered: 2019-01-04

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[Solved] Shutdown doesn't ever happen on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme

I installed arch on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme last night and when I wanted to shut it down, I typed:

shutdown now

For some reason it just hangs on a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I held down the power button and rebooted, trying the below this time. The same thing happened.

halt

I decided to leave it in this state overnight to see if it would eventually shutdown. This morning, I woke up to a flat laptop, so it seems that it just hangs in this state for eternity.

Has anyone had a similar issue? Or knows how to go about fixing it? I'm unsure where to check the logs for shutting the computer down, so that may be a start.

Last edited by chra (2019-01-20 10:14:28)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] Shutdown doesn't ever happen on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Journal

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chra

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Registered: 2019-01-04

Posts: 46

Re: [Solved] Shutdown doesn't ever happen on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme

I managed to fix this issue by installing the nvidia drivers.