Computer Fails to Shutdown Sometimes

Dethredic · 2009-09-21 13:55:17

When I shutdown I usually open a terminal and type "sudo halt". About 50% of the time my computer shuts down as you would expect.

The other 50% of the time it seems like it is shutting down normally, but at the instant where you expect everything to turn off I just hear my hard drive spin down, but all the lights and fans continue to run. I flip the power switch at the back to 'finish' the shutdown process in this case.

Any ideas on how I could fix this or find out what is wrong?

Dethredic · 2009-09-23 11:31:35

anyone?

Dethredic · 2009-09-26 13:43:37

bump.

zen3 · 2009-09-26 13:46:58

Try haltdown -h instead of halt.

loafer · 2009-09-26 13:57:52

Did you mean "shutdown -h now"? In theory it should produce the same result as halt will just call shutdown in normal circumstances. You could also try "halt -p" and see if the behaviour is the same, but again it should be the default.

Dethredic · 2009-09-27 14:47:56

ok, I tried halt -p and it seems to work about 60% of the time. I will start trying the shutdown -h now, but I don't think switching up my halt commands will help too much

esh · 2009-09-29 15:35:51

My system does the same 100% of the time. It's been like this for over a year now. I just have gotten used to pressing the power button, sadly.

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#1 2009-09-21 13:55:17

Computer Fails to Shutdown Sometimes

#2 2009-09-23 11:31:35

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#3 2009-09-26 13:43:37

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