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Shut down acts as restart?

I've installed Ubuntu (almost all latest versions), when my Acer Aspire V5-471 is want to shutdown from Ubuntu, it acts as restart/reboot. Refer to edit 2 for releases tried and edit 1 for tried ...
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Shutdown when laptop lid closed

I want my laptop to shutdown when I close the laptop lid. But in the power settings I can only choose between: Suspend Do nothing Hibernate (Disabled) Is there any way to configure it with more ...
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Cannot configure power button “powerbtn.sh” on Ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]

Iam using Ubuntu 11.10, I am trying to get rid of the Dialogue(5 Power options) that opens whenever you press the Power Button. But I have tried all that I could find on the net... and none seems to ...
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How to prevent XBMC from shutting down or suspending your computer?

Since I run XBMC as a program, and not standalone, I would just like it to exit when I click the power button. The default behavior is to show the shutdown menu, and I don't want to accidently shut ...
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Why does Ubuntu (and other ubuntu based distros like lubuntu and linux mint) randomly shutdown on my laptop?

I have a lenovo g555 laptop and whenever I try and boot a ubuntu based distro off a usb, it randomly shuts off my PC (Not like a normal shutdown with shutdown loading screen but a like a sudden hard ...
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12.10 shutdown/power-up issue

I have just upgraded to 12.10 on a Shuttle XPC which I use mainly for XBMC and have a problem with shut down/power up. When I shut down from within XBMC the box seems to shut down correctly, but it ...
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Set Idle Time in Ubuntu 12.04 Server

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 Server and am looking for away for get the server to suspend after an idle time. When using the desktop version I could use the Gnome powersaving tool to specify the ...
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Can I set the default behaviour of power button to suspend the machine on 12.04? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I modify the power options? Whenever you press the power button on Ubuntu 12.04 a shutdown dialog appears, but I would like it to simply suspend the machine ...
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How to add “shutdown” to the list of “when the lid is closed” in power settings? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I modify the power options? I'd like to shutdown my laptop by closing the lid; but in Power Settings there's no option to do that. Is there any way to add ...
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Overheat Error when shutdown from ubuntu os [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: HP Pavilion g6 1190sm laptop has overheat/hibernation/graphics issues I am running Windows 7 OS and Ubuntu OS on the same machine my machine have the following ...
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Acer randomly shuts down

I just bought an Acer Aspire One 756 in Romania with Ubuntu pre-installed, and i choose to reinstall ubuntu for english language and my correct keyboard layout. but now it randomly shuts down. I ...
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What is the command for sleep/hibernate? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I suspend/hibernate from command line? I have an Acre Aspire One and this netbook does not have a sleep function on the key board and with the removal of the ...
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Shutdown button not working [closed]

I have 12.04 installed on my laptop. It was working perfectly until yesterday. Since then, no matter whether I choose restart shutdown or suspend option from GUI, my computer suspends. Please give ...
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When the wireless connection is active, Ubuntu 12.04 does not restart or turn off

I performed a clean installation of Ubuntu 12.04 (on a laptop with Intel Core2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz and 2 GB RAM), overwriting the previous version. During the installation I decided to install ...
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1answer
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Will computer being shut down due to power failure affect my system files, or speed in any way? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How resilient is Ubuntu to repeated “power-off” shutdowns? I've asked before as well but need to confirm again, in my country there are a lot of electricity ...
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Will Not Shut Down

My Dell Inspiron 1720 Laptop with 12.04 with latest updates will not shut down when commanded off. After each upgrade it will probably turn off once, the next time it is commanded off, it will shut ...
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sudo shutdown vs pressing power button quick

I have a headless Ubuntu server running 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 server edition, and I connect to the server via SSH from my Windows laptop. Sometimes when I would like to turn off the server and my ...
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Netbook performs hard shutdown without warning on low battery power

My Asus EEE netbook performs a hard shutdown when it reaches low battery power, without giving any warning - i.e. the power just goes off, without any shutdown process. I can't find anything in the ...
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How to disable automatic shutdown on UPS battery?

I have a UPS which is configured with Apcupsd. It shows all the stats correctly. The problem is that when I switch to battery mode, something sends a shutdown signal to the PC. My guess is that it ...
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System hangs when returning from hibernate but not sleep (12.04)

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on a Acer Revo r3610 (full specs from lspci at the end of this post) and whenever I set the machine to hibernate via the command line using: sudo pm-hibernate The machine ...
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how to set power management actions in U 12.04?

I need to know, how to set "what to do" if power keys on keyboard are pressed, how to disable some of them, ... I can't find nothing neither in gconf-editor nor in dconf. In keyboard shortcuts is ...
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Auto Power On and Off

I have a old laptop set up as a media server with Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I was wondering whether it was possible to set a time for it to automatically turn off at night and then in the morning ...
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Precise Beta 2: Screen won't power down

I am running Precise beta 2 on a Dell Latitude E6410 with nVidia graphics. I have set up the power management to turn the screen off after 10 mins of inactivity. Instead of it turning off, it simply ...
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Shutting down with power button without x11-session

When pressing the power-button inside a (gnome-)session, ubuntu asks me what to do and shuts down after 60 seconds anyway. No problem so far. But if i'm not logged in in a gnome-session (for example ...
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Why can't I login after a hard reset?

Ubuntu boots normal, and I can even login in terminal at any TTY (tt1 ~ tty6), but not in Graphical mode. This happened after a power-suspend. As I was trying to resume after the system suspended due ...
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How do I check if last shutdown was clean?

How can tell that my last shutdown was properly done in Ubuntu 11.10 or if the machine was powered off before shutting down the OS?
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Ubuntu Logs off on shutdown, Proper shutdown/restart too doesnt work

I don't know what i did or what happened? but my ubuntu logs off on clicking shutdown... running the shutdown or reboot command too doesn't shutdown.... how can i find the log? all i know is there ...
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How do I repair the shut-down/Log-off button?

I use the computer with 2 users. With one user all works fine. With the second user account, the shut down and log-off buttons do not work anymore while screen locking standby and hibernation still ...
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1answer
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How do I get Ubuntu to ignore power button presses?

I've got a small media server that sits under my TV, and it runs Ubuntu 11.04 desktop x64 with XBMC on top. I've got a problem in that unknowing users / visitors occasionally press the power button ...
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Customize the power button action (ubuntu 10.04)

I would like to customize the power button action. The tutorial at http://blog.metalight.dk/2010/07/ubuntu-lucid-custom-power-button-event/ works but not always (the number of shutdown processes can ...
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What happens if I Force power off my pc

Shutdown didn't work for me. It was stuck at Ubuntu Logo. I waited for sometime and finally powered off mu laptop. I want to know what happens if i power off my laptop. In what ways its harms OS ...
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Dell Laptop won't shutdown / restart by itself

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on my Dell Studio 1569. Before this I ran ubuntu 11.04 64-bit. Every time I shutdown, or restart it goes through the usual processes, and shows no error ( ...
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How do I make the power button shut the laptop down without asking?

The energy options screen, oddly, doesn't have an option for what to do when the power button is pressed! Translating the three options: "Suspend when inactive for:" (it's set to not suspend) "When ...
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Computer shuts down when unplugged

I have an MSI Wind U100 netbook (they call it a notebook). Every time I unplug the AC adapter the machine shuts down as if the battery is dead. I get a notification that says "battery is critical and ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 powers down automatically [closed]

Ubuntu 11.10 automatically powers down after a period of non-use. For example, I can't leave my computer on over night when I am downloading large files because it shuts down. Is this a bug or is ...
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Computer restarts instead of shutting down [closed]

My Ubuntu 11.04 will not shutdown when I tell it to; it will instead restart the computer.
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Dell Vostro 3400 reboots instead of shutting down

Well the title says it all. After the GUI button of shutdown responded to reboot. I have tried all the command there is but every time I shut down my laptop it reboots. I tried sudo halt sudo ...
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Is it safe to configure “Shutdown” on “When laptop lid is closed”?

To setup a laptop owned by a complete PC novice any settings that may become hard to tackle remotely need to be avoided. The laptop will be administrated via SSH. One thing in my list are problems ...
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Laptop shuts down on lid close

When I close the lid of my Asus X77JQ, lucid shuts it down automatically after five minutes. I want to be able to sleep in the same room as my laptop, so I would like to be able to close the lid ...