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alexandroos

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Registered: 2008-10-15

Posts: 8

power down issues

Hi everybody,

I've been experiencing system power down isssues for some months now...my desktop computer won't power down anymore ,it just hangs there saying "reboot: power down" I have to manually power off the system by the power button.
I also tried "shutdown -h now" and "halt" commands but with no luck .
As for reboot it just delays a few seconds then reboots alright, so not a big deal there.

I've posted a picture on tinypic :

http://oi59.tinypic.com/331d7c4.jpg

Anybody has any idea?

Thanks in advance.

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Last edited by WorMzy (2015-09-10 15:49:29)

niceman

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Registered: 2015-08-31

Posts: 55

Re: power down issues

As it says it fails to unmount /var, mostly because there is some write request that didn't complete yet and write request is very expected to /var. 

try to unmount it from console before powering off and post the output here.

P.S: there is someone already has the same issue as yours https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=201128 , maybe you can try what he tried .

Last edited by niceman (2015-09-10 16:15:24)

alexandroos

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Registered: 2008-10-15

Posts: 8

Re: power down issues

@niceman , I just tried unmounting /var from console then poweroff by "umount -l /var && poweroff" ...but no luck , it still hangs in there..
I also tried modified /etc/systemd/journald.conf with storage=volatile...no differences at all. also the error message unmounting /var is still there.

I think the powerdown issue is not related to that error message.

Last edited by alexandroos (2015-09-10 16:41:28)

alexandroos

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Registered: 2008-10-15

Posts: 8

Re: power down issues

Just for the record, the system says power down  and isn't responding anymore ,it just freezes there , keyboard leds turned off as well as mouse.  All I can do is press the power button to turn it off. I also tried passing acpi=force to the kernel  ,still nothing seems to work.

Last edited by alexandroos (2015-09-11 07:43:21)

niceman

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Registered: 2015-08-31

Posts: 55

Re: power down issues

have you tried linux-lts ?

If the problem still occurs then post the journald log(journalctl).

alexandroos

Member

Registered: 2008-10-15

Posts: 8

Re: power down issues

I cleared CMOS and the problem dissapeared please mark as solved.