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13.10 has been re-installed on my i3. I cannot shut down or log out. The power button menu does not help and sudo shutdown -h now also did not help. Can you advise? Other suggestions to my query have been tried. I am still unable to log out or shut down.

Computer spec:

CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4 ; Intel® Haswell.
Motherboard: Intel Round Lake dh87rl Lga1150

If I select and click on Shut Down and hold down the power button for a count of 10, the machine will power off.

I have pressed F2 to Enter Setup when the machine reboots. Nothing happens. F7 to Enter Bios also does nothing. F10 to Enter Boot Menu made the PC freeze. I had to force a shutdown.

Sudo shutdown -h produced following message. The link is on Imgur: imgur.com/ud9ECnA

I Upgraded from 13.10 to 14.04 on 21 April 2014. The machine still does not shut down. I have to hold down the power button or 14.04 automatically reboots. My kernel is 3.13.0 -24-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu April 10 19:11:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU Linux

sudo shutdown -P now or sudo poweroff and sudo shutdown -h now do not help. Halt -p produces:"halt: Need to be root." sudo halt makes the machine freeze. sudo halt -p does not help. The machine reboots immediately.

I did not know how to enter Bios. Wakeup on Lan is disabled. The problem is solved.

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    did you tried sudo shutdown -P now or sudo poweroff? Feb 10, 2014 at 3:20
  • These did not help. The machine automatically restarted. Feb 10, 2014 at 21:08
  • What happens when you try those commands? Do you get any output?
    – Seth
    Feb 11, 2014 at 18:03
  • What is your motherboard, and did you change anything in grub before having this problem.
    – Mateo
    Feb 11, 2014 at 18:12
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    Intel Round Lake dh87rl Lga1150 Mtherboard Feb 11, 2014 at 19:36

3 Answers 3

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The shutdown command does not work if wake on lan is enabled in the bios (see https://communities.intel.com/thread/45667).

If you have to use wake on lan use halt -p instead of shutdown.

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  • halt -p does not shut down. If I press F7 to Enter Bios does this not do anything. Mar 15, 2014 at 12:00
  • I did not know how to enter Bios. Lan is disabled. The problem is solved. Apr 24, 2014 at 17:27
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Shut Down:

sudo shutdown -h now

or

sudo halt

or

sudo halt -p

Restart:

sudo reboot
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  • The Shut Down attempts failed. In each case the PC automatically restarted. On sudo halt the machine froze. R E I S U B and alt/ printscreen failed and I pulled the plug out... Feb 10, 2014 at 21:07
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To shutdown I use the brother of reboot:

sudo poweroff
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  • did you see the comments this and this? Feb 11, 2014 at 12:16
  • sorry. I missed that. Anyway... didn´t you saw any message in the terminal after the command? any error or complain from the command to use it as a clue? after a poweroff your pc reboots??? are you sure?
    – Rho
    Feb 11, 2014 at 13:30
  • @AvinashRaj I lost the thread of the help-discussion. I re-entered sudo poweroff, sudo shutdown -P now, sudo shutdown -h now. The machine shut down immediately and rebooted immediately each time. Before 'sudo shutdown-h now' the following appeared in the terminal: "$ down vote accept No command 'down' found, did you mean: command 'cdown' from package 'cdtool' (universe) down: command not found $ shut down: shut: command not found." Feb 11, 2014 at 17:02

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