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I seem to be having a strange problem. Whenever I issue a shutdown command, eg
# shutdown now -h
my computer reboots instead of shutting down. I've gone through the manpage for shutdown and tried additionally appending the -P option to force a power off on shutdown, but that didn't have any effect. I'm not sure what other factors could be affecting the shutdown sequence, as I haven't installed any new packages or upgraded my system recently. The only thing I made any change to recently was /etc/rc.local, but I've since reverted /etc/rc.local to it's original (working) configuration.
Does anyone have any suggestions or workarounds?
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have u tried
shutdown -h now
?
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That's a problem with policy-kit. (I think) If you are in X, try starting like this:
exec ck-launch-session yourwm/de
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Try killing X and then shutdown from terminal. Had this problem with plymounth, solved by just not using it.
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I have always used :
sudo poweroff
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Try killing X and then shutdown from terminal. Had this problem with plymounth, solved by just not using it.
Good call. I'd forgotten this, but I installed plymouth like a week ago. I guess I hadn't shutdown my computer since then, and so I didn't notice the reboot bug till yesterday. To automate the process, I tried adding the following to /etc/rc.local.shutdown and then to /etc/rc.shutdown:
# Shutdown X to avoid plymouth reboot bug
/etc/rc.d/slim stop
This caused my system to hang on shutdown. I think I'm just going to submit a bug report to the plymouth guys and wait for a patch since I don't often shutdown my computer anyway (suspend works fine).
Thanks all for your replies
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Looks like I'm not the only one with this problem... note to self, check UAR discussion first next time
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I have always used :
sudo poweroff
`init 0` FTW.
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use halt command to shut down as........
sudo halt
Last edited by simpu (2010-06-05 09:05:36)
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use halt command to shut down as........
sudo halt
Just came in to mention that. I also use:
$ sudo halt
It should start immediately shutting down.
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