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frojnd

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Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 125

[SOLVED] Laptop wont poweroff/reboot (New installation)

So I just installed latest Arch on one of the laptops: Acer aspire v3-112P (Intel processor)

And I tried to shutdown or poweroff with systemctl. It hanged and I was forced to cold shutdown it. Same for the reboot. I tried with shutdown -h now, systemctl poweroff, shutdown -r now, systemctl reboot.. it's hanging and the last message I can see is "reached target shutdown" I thought this is kernel related issue but I see other distros also have this problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1464917

And it seems like a big fat problem since everyone is talking about everything. Some are blaiming systemd and some even intel graphic drivers which is crazy since I didn't even install X....

Any ideas where can I start investigating this? Please note I have the same problem with other distros (Ubuntu 15.10, Elementary OS Freya 0.3.2, .... the list goes on). So I'm hoping I will be successful with Arch linux. Hope guys can help me out.

Last edited by frojnd (2016-02-25 17:12:01)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop wont poweroff/reboot (New installation)

Some are blaiming systemd and some even intel graphic drivers which is crazy since I didn't even install X....

You don't need to have X to use the intel driver. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _early_KMS

Any ideas where can I start investigating this? Please note I have the same problem with other distros (Ubuntu 15.10, Elementary OS Freya 0.3.2, .... the list goes on). So I'm hoping I will be successful with Arch linux. Hope guys can help me out.

I know you have tried different distros with different kernels, but still, start by trying the LTS kernel.

Edit: Possibly related thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208982

Last edited by x33a (2016-02-17 06:57:36)

frojnd

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Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 125

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop wont poweroff/reboot (New installation)

I finally did it. The problem was I had legacy option chosen in bios even though it supported UEFI. After setting it to UEFI (At the time secure boot was disabled) I was able to reboot with live distro!!! But when I rebooted (succcessfully) I had no bootable device. So I went to bios and enable secure boot, and add linux. And that's it. Now poweroff reboot hibernation, suspension works

x33a

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop wont poweroff/reboot (New installation)

Glad you got it sorted out. Please mark the thread as solved.