Ubuntu suspends when the lid is closed after pressing shutdown

Question

I am running 12.10. Usually when I am in a hurry I press the shutdown button on the bar and close the lid of my laptop just after that. Often, I observe that instead of shutting down, the system suspends (because I closed the lid right after) and the shut down process resumes after I reopen the lid which wakes it up. Is there any workaround such that once the shutdown button has been pressed, Ubuntu does not allow "suspension on lid close" and it carries out the shutdown (and not the sleep) even if the lid is pulled down right after the shutdown button is pressed? And also, I dont want to switch off the "sleep on lid close" feature either. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can try add this line sleep 5 bellow #!/bin/bash in file /etc/acpi/lid.sh.

Second possibility is edit /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh as following and old content leave below as backup (this is from this question askubuntu.com)

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
# Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
# pressed.

/sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed"
exit 0

# leave the old code below (in case you want to revert!)

Answer 2

The best option is to change the suspend option when lid is closed. Change the lid close option to nothing. The shutdown process was initiated first but some process delays it and mean while when you close the lid it gets suspended.

Answer 3

Dude, if you have the setting of suspending when close lid is on, if you close the lid before complete shutdown, it is going to suspend. I tried it before too... it just DOES it. The best thing for you is to just let it shut down and then close it, or turn the lock feature off.