Questions tagged [shutdown]
For questions regarding shutting down and powering off.
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Shutdown Freezes on Ubuntu 14.04 (2015 Macbook Pro Dual-Boot)
I recently did a dual-boot on my 2015 Macbook Pro Retina. I opted not to use rEFInd, instead selecting sda1 (/boot/efi) as the mountpoint for my boot partition.
I cannot shut down my computer without ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Battery Drains to 50% in shutdown in 5-6 hours [HP pavilion Gaming Notebook]
I have a dual boot system with windows 10.
I use ubuntu most of the time and in the night when i shut it down with 90%-95% battery. Next morning when i open up the laptop, the battery is drained to ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Black Screen After Suspend
I've seen this issue reported but have not seen a solution working for me. I did a fresh install of 16.04 and everything is working great.
The only problem I'm having is when I close the lid on my ...
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Stall on CPU on reboot / shutdown
I just installed a fresh version of 16.04 on my MSI GE62 laptop.
I had some trouble installing at first, which was solved with a combination of:
Secure boot off
Fat boot off
and setting nouveau....
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GNOME 16.04 Reboot after Shutdown
My PC always reboots 5 seconds after its turned off. I looked at Reboot after shutdown (Ubuntu 14.04 (also 12.04); Dell latitude E7440), but:
the top rated answer didn't help since I have no power ...
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Reached Target shutdown
1 out of 8 times Ubuntu freezes at shutdown. When I click on Esc I see the log and it gets stuck at 'Reached target shutdown' but it never shuts down. I read somewhere about it's a bug and tried to ...
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Ubuntu overheat and instant shutdown
Since the last couple of days my desktop PC shuts down instantly and automatically even on light system usage. I found this line in the system log just before the shut down.
localhost kernel: [14404....
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Better to suspend my ubuntu or shut down it during long journey in car? [closed]
I will be in a 4hr car drive, but I still have a lot of unfinished editing jobs that I don't want to close in Ubuntu, because I will have to take notes of what is left for each job so that I can ...
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How do I get my script to run BEFORE any shutdown sequence like unmounting my external drive
I have a back up script in ~/scripts/backup.sh and my upstart conf in ~/.config/upstart/shutdown.conf.
description "my shutdown script"
start on desktop-end
task
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exec ~/scripts/...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Clear Swap when RAM is full
I am running a python program that, for some reason, goes crazy once in a while. I am then forced to kill the program but the RAM and Swap used by the program is not released. This causes the hanging ...
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Super confused between upstart and systemd
Given I'm running 15.10 my system should be using systemd confirmed by...
$ ps -p1 | grep systemd && echo systemd || echo upstart
1 ? 00:00:02 systemd
systemd
But I have an ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 won't shutdown
When I try to power off Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my MSI GS60, the laptop will not shut down. Reboot works fine though. I have removed the quiet splash parameters for grub so I can see the output. When I ...
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Cannot reboot/shutdown Ubuntu 16.04
I hadn't any problem with 14.04, but 16.04 is so buggy. I can't reboot Ubuntu after installation is completed from live USB/DVD and I must press the power button. Also sudo reboot and sudo poweroff ...
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Cannot reboot or poweroff Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 kernel 4.5.4-040504-generic
Whenever I try to reboot or power off I receive:
Failed to power off system via logind: Transaction is destructive.
This began at the same time that I ...
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Shutdown: CLI vs GUI [duplicate]
Is there a difference between doing a shutdown via Ubuntu's GUI versus doing a "sudo shutdown now" from the terminal? I ask this as I notice that my machines take longer to shutdown if I shutdown via ...
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Ubuntu 16 doesn't power off completely my HP
Well, this is strange. When i shut down my computer. It freezes on power down!!
Here is an example with some screenshots :
At the end, i have to long press the power off button. I have no other ...
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Restore shutdown to root only
I've changed the shutdown command to be able to run it as normal user (not root):
sudo chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown
And now I cannot get back to root only when running shutdown:
$ sudo chmod a-s /sbin/...
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16.04 LTS Reboots after shutdown (Acer aspire E5-511)
Upgraded to 16.04 as a way of fixing the networking bug introduced in recent 14.04LTS update. Now when I do a Shut down my laptop bursts back into life a few seconds after completely powering down. ...
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Why does `reboot` and `poweroff` work without super user privileges in Ubuntu 16.04?
There are a lot of questions about why shutdown and reboot require root privileges. There are many good answers available too.
Why do we need to be root in terminal for shutdown and restart?
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Help Ubuntu and Windows won't shutdown
I've decided to install Ubuntu 16.04 along with Windows 10 on my Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series. Now both OS's can't shut down properly.
What is looks like is that all processes are killed during the ...
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Ensure that a (potentially long) root script execute to completion before power-down [duplicate]
I want to run a simple rsync-based bash script as root when a power-down cycle initiates from either:
a login interactive shell, or
a gui session, or
a machine boot state where no login-user has ...
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16.04 reboots 4 seconds after shutdown completes (Acer Aspire V5-571P)
My Acer Aspire V5-571P running Ubuntu 16.04 has started rebooting a couple of seconds after shutdown completes. It seems that this is an issue that keeps cropping up randomly in Ubuntu?
I've tried ...
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Reduce shutdown time?
How can I reduce shutdown time?
The guest session takes only 1 second, but my session take about 10 seconds. I checked the first answer here, but apport doesn't show any thing is their any way to ...
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NFS prevents machine from shutting down
I have Ubuntu 14.04 and use ifplugd as network manager. I also have 2 NFS shares set up.
If I unmount those shares beforehand, OS shuts down just fine, but if I don't, it never shuts down (I left it ...
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after installation of easyshutdown nothing happens when i click on it ubuntu 16.04
i've just installed easyshutdown but when i click on it it rises up for some seconds and stops running. What is the problem. I didn't find any solution. New to ubuntu 16.04
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Cinnamon desktop, no shutdown button
I am using Cinnamon desktop with 14.04. Since a couple of months, I am facing this issue. It is that there is no shutdown , restart or log off buttons when you click the shutdown button in pop up menu....
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Ubuntu 14.04 spontaneously shutting down, showing power off menu for a second
Recently I have had problems with Ubuntu (14.04) spontaneously shutting down for no obvious reason. I use GNOME, and just before it happens it shows me the GNOME power off menu:
It doesn't however ...
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Log Out or Restart
If I install updates and get prompted to restart my computer, will it make a difference if I just logged out and then logged back in?
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How can I get a warning before restart/shutdown?
I have just restarted my Ubuntu, but I forgot that a virtual machine was open in the background (having a minimized icon on the taskbar). Is it possible to configure Ubuntu in a way that if a user-...
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How can I safely shut down Xfce from the terminal?
I'm not looking for shutdown or reboot or the like. I want to know how to shut down Xubuntu from the terminal, by executing a command that would have the same effect as clicking the "Shutdown" button ...
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Ubuntu Lenovo Y50 Intellij IDEA Crash
I have a very strange problem with IntelliJ or Ubuntu (or maybe with my laptop - Lenovo Y50).
Starting IntelliJ crashes the computer, but it happens only in certain situations, here are the examples:
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Suspend auto-shutdown to watch uninturupted video on Firefox
When I'm watching streaming on my Firefox, the computer shuts down automatically, it seems there's no "stay alive" feature.
I'd like to suspend the auto-shutdown for a specific duration : is there a ...
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ubuntu gnome 16.04 cannot shutdown but can reboot
Recently I install the Ubuntu-gnome 16.04 on my Gateway laptop,but Problems happen when I try to shutdown it,the button doesn't work,the computer hangs on with the logo screen.but it can reboot.
I ...
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Netbook power button ineffective after lubuntu 15.10 to 16.04LTS update
A few days ago, I upgraded my eMachines (Acer) netbook from Lubuntu 15.10 to 16.04LTS. Everything works fine, except that the power button no longer brings up the shutdown menu. I tried switching the ...
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ubuntu 16.04 shutdown problem in hp laptop celeron
i have installed ubuntu 16.04 lts on my laptop but i can't shutdown my laptop
just if i hold on power button i tried shutdown -h now & sudo init 0 but same thing and when i type in the terminal ...
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Plug in a USB mouse makes computer shuts down after a while
When I plug my USB mouse on my laptop starts to overheating and shuts down after a while. What can I do to solve this problem?
Linux Xubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bits
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Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't shut down after suspend or hibernate
Why no answer accepted
For the simple reason that I haven't been using Ubuntu for a long time, so I couldn't test the answers.
The question
Actually my question can appear identical to this one in ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 freezes during shutdown [duplicate]
I have recently installed Ubuntu 16.04. Today suddenly I am seeing that it freezes during shutdown. I have no idea why this is happening.
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Session closed instead of shutdown
Shutdown from taskbar, but instead session is closed. Why?
I have to "poweroff" in terminal.
Desktop computer running Ubuntu 16.04, recently upgraded from 15.10 (not sure, but I believe also ...
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Fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install hangs on reboot (i386 Server on Acer Travelmate laptop)
I've used an old Acer Travelmate 4000 laptop as my local server for ages with Ubuntu Desktop.
This year, I installed 16.04 i386 Server Edition and couldn't be happier. The entire working set of Linux,...
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I just wiped my computer and installed 16.04 LTS and I am not able to shut it down or restart
I just wiped my computer and installed 16.04 LTS and I am not able to shut it down or restart it just hangs in till I have to force shut down, by holding the power button.
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How to shutdown system if not charging
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. My battery is not working, i.e. it provides backup for around 5 minutes.
Now when I download stuff, it sometimes takes around 5 - 6 hours. And I can't just hang around the ...
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Dell Inspiron 3542 b40 i5 8gb ram 1TBHD not shutting off
I've tried everything but I couldn't fix the problem. I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot with windows 10. Ubuntu works fine,but It gets stuck at loading screen on shutdown. Ubuntu has never froze ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 battery percentage shutdown not working
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Dell Inspiron and got an issue that my laptop is not shutdown even after battery is critical low and even after percentage action.
My dconf setting are as follow:
Any ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 hangs on shutdown/restart
My Ubuntu 16.04 hangs on shutdown/restart requiring me to press and hold the power key to turn the machine off... I don't know how to report this as a bug and what commands to run to show the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 won't power off: poweroff.target is disabled
Ubuntu 16.04 won't power off. When I go to the icon at the top right of the screen and click shutdown, it does not shutdown. I ran shutdown -h now and this is what I got:
tanner@tanner-x151x:~$ ...
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Problem shutting down or restarting after suspend.16.04
Yesterday I noticed when I went to restart my laptop, it wouldn't. The computer is a brand new Dell XPS 13 9350. After looking into some things I noticed that it would only happen (Not shutting down) ...
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Laptop won't poweroff Ubuntu 16.04
I recently upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 (did a fresh, new installation) but I am having problems when shutting down.
The first problem I had was that laptop crashed when shutting down - I did some ...
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How do we disable ctrl-alt-del on Ubuntu 16.04?
In previous versions of Ubuntu server, to disable CtrlAltDel (reboot), we would edit the /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf file and change the script to display a message telling that this function ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 not shutting down
I have recently upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 and I have had a few issues in upgrading. But I have fixed these and now everything works without any issues in the new version, with one exception
When I'...
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