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bbq

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Registered: 2011-05-07

Posts: 14

Laptop cannot power off

My laptop cannot power it off.
I use sudo poweroff to shut it down.
Hard disk stop running but the power LED and wireless LED are still in light.
I firstly thought it was the X problem. Then I check the /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and found the tail of it was

[  2991.248] (II) evdev: Broadcom Corp: Close
[  2991.248] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2991.248] (II) evdev: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:101d: Close
[  2991.248] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2991.249] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
[  2991.249] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2991.249] (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
[  2991.249] (II) evdev: Dell WMI hotkeys: Close
[  2991.249] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2992.303] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

Which means X seems terminated correctly. Then I don't know to check what or check which log to find out the problem.
Someone gives me a hint? Thx!

However I found that if I don't startx after login, the poweroff works fine.
After I startx after login, I cannot switch to text terminal anymore by using Ctrl+Alt+F1.
After pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 the screen was totally black and only by using Ctrl+Alt+F7 can bring me back to the gui interface.

Last edited by bbq (2012-04-23 03:26:38)

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sealclubber

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Registered: 2012-04-16

Posts: 34

Re: Laptop cannot power off

sudo shutdown -h now

maybe?

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bbq

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Registered: 2011-05-07

Posts: 14

Re: Laptop cannot power off

sudo shutdown -h now

maybe?

It was the same as poweroff.

However I found that if I don't startx after login, the poweroff works fine.

After I startx after login, I cannot switch to text terminal anymore by using Ctrl+Shift+F1.

After pressing Ctrl+Shift+F1 the screen was totally black and only by using Ctrl+Shift+F7 can bring me back to the gui interface.

Someone has an idea?

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cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,178

Re: Laptop cannot power off

Do you mean ctrl + alt? Or are you really using ctrl + shift?

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bbq

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Registered: 2011-05-07

Posts: 14

Re: Laptop cannot power off

Do you mean ctrl + alt? Or are you really using ctrl + shift?

Sorry, my fault. I mean ctrl + alt.

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