Questions tagged [shutdown]
For questions regarding shutting down and powering off.
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Ubuntu 24 Plymouth splash during shutdown has corrupted text
Environment: Ubuntu 24.04, kernel Linux 6.10.9-1-t2-noble, wayland, amdgpu, AMD Radeon™ Pro 580X, mesa driver, MacPro 7,1.
At shutdown if I want to show the non-quiet splash and select "Esc" ...
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Laptop won't shut down sometimes
My Lenovo Yoga 510-14IKB running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS won't shut down every time when I select the option through Gnome's panel dropdown (or through the small popup by pressing the physical power button). ...
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Laptop shuts off when installing Ubuntu from USB
EDIT 2: I managed to catch a split second error message before the shutdown; turns out it was emergency shutdown due to overheating. I came up with a sneaky solution to avoid opening the laptop.
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System goes into unresponsive "suspend" instead of shutting down when closing lid during shutdown (Kubuntu 24.04 LTS)
EDIT: After some testing, I can now reproduce the problem. When I close the lid immediately after clicking "shutdown", the system goes into suspend instead of shutting down. When opening the ...
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ubuntu 24.0.1 did not power off after shutdown -P now or halt -p command
After upgrading to 24.04.1 from 22.04 it was unable to power off after executing halt -p or shutdown -P now.
The video output will turned off
Please help
Thanks
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Failed to unmount oldroot
When updating nvidia driver to version 560 on ubuntu 22, i get black screen with error failed to unmount oldroot/sys ...
Driver or resource busy, and it doesn't shutdown.
I tried to downgrade the ...
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Computer keeps shutting down, as though it's hibernating, but neither hibernate or suspend are enabled
I have my computer, running 22.04, set to blank the screen after 15 minutes, and that works fine during the day, but when I leave my computer on overnight, it has recently started to shut down, but ...
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How can I control the damage when a game crashes in Lubuntu and ctr-alt-backspace doesn't work?
I'm a new user of Lubuntu, trying out this OS largely because I'm tired of Windows 10's bloatware and hoping to maximize gaming performance. I've been trying games that I didn't think would work ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: Suspend, hibernate, and shutdown fail in different ways
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Laptop - Lenovo Thinkpad X260
OS - Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
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I use suspend at least a couple times daily, and noticed an issue with it two days ago where suspend fails and I can only reboot.
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When i try to log out / shut down I get an error message : type of message (yb) does not match expected type (b)
I have the above problem. Other users have asked the same question but the fixes suggested don't work for me. Any other ideas? Thanks
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Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS shutdown trouble
I have Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS running on a Lenovo ThinkPad E560. Ubuntu is installed on an external USB SD drive. I had no problems for several years.
I have installed the last updates of the system on ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 freezes randomly and does not recover without force shutdown
I just installed a version of ubuntu 24.04 LTS as the main operating system, so far it has only given me problems, as it freezes suddenly on several occasions, on all occasions without any exception, ...
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Thinkpad T460 Shutdown/Suspend in Ubuntu 24.04
I have a Thinkpad T460 with Intel I7 and 16 GB of RAM. I installed Ubuntu 24.04 from scratch using the new installer with automated minimal installation with all codecs and proprietary drivers. I have ...
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When can I unplug the Live-USB-Stick after trying Xubuntu 22.04LTS
After I shut down the system fro my Live-USB-stick with Xubuntu 22.04 LTS the screen shows in its middle "xubuntu" decorated with its logo. I don't know when the shutdown process is finished....
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Dell XPS 9315 on Ubuntu 20.04 with drawnout shutdown
Has anyone recently experienced problems with Dell or other PC's on shutdown? Some days ago, coinciding with the worldwide Windows/Crowdstrike problems, I am now experiencing a strange shutdown of my ...
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Execute a script when powering off, but not when rebooting (using systemd)
I'm working on scripts to power the TV connected to my Mac (running Linux) on and off. These scripts make use of the cec-ctl util (part of video4l), which control the CEC pin of the HDMI output.
The ...
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Kubuntu 24.04 managing USB devices power when computer sleeps or shutdown
Kubuntu 24.04 managing USB devices power when computer sleeps or shutdown. My USB devices (mouse and keyboard) are powered on even after I shutdown my PC.
They also get powered when the PC is in sleep ...
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lightdm re-login while shutting down
I have a weird effect that shows only occasionally.
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Ubuntu MATE 22.04.
X11 with lightdm as display manager
lightdm is configured to auto-login and also re-login within 2s after a session ends
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Error during suspending my laptop
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When I sleep my laptop and relaunch it it shows this error and it doesn’t respond to any button, I had to power it off!
Any solutions? (I have dual boot on that laptop)
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Adjusting brightness is not workng and pressing brightness buttons cause system shutdown (while booting on discrete video card)
Recently I've bought Lenovo loq 16aph8, installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and faced several issues. One of them is the system crush (power off) when pressing brightness adjusting buttons (F5, F6). Otherwise ...
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Ubuntu Desktop Running on HP ProDesk Shutting Down When Left Alone
I'm trying to use this old desktop from work as a machine to at least run pihole on, maybe a few other things as well. But pihole is job number 1. Got that going, set all my power settings so that it ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS freezes and nothing works, force shutdown option left
sir this system is running
Intel® Core™ i5-6400 × 4
RAM 8GB
its showing disk 832.2 GB
GPU 610 i dont know as it says NVIDIA 610
i just installed ubuntu and running it, i did nothing in terms of drive ...
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My laptop is showing full charging when plugged in but when I plugged off , my laptop just shut down
I first thought my battery is broken so I replaced it but it's still showing the issue , My battery is full charged but still my laptop doesn't turn on when I plugged in it will then turn on idk what ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 on Thinkpad-E560 doesn't shutdown properly
I recently bought an SSD, Installed ubuntu 24.04 from a bootable pendrive. Following the standard partition schema offered by the installer wizard. Then I noticed that my computer didn't shutdown ...
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Lenovo T460s shutdown when first battery run out under Ubuntu 24.04
I have installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a Lenovo T460s. I notice earlier that the Laptop shut down unexpectedly. Few moment after, i have checked that, when the second battery of my Laptop runs out, it shut ...
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Poweroff does not work since upgrade to 24.04
I have upgraded last week to 24.04. Since then my laptop does not power off alright. Everything seems to turn off but when I try to power it back on with the power-on button nothing happens at all. ...
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Why can't i shut down entirely despite being able to restart?
I am running ubuntu 20.04 LTS and i am having a strange problem that also affected me when using the latest 24.04 version, when i click to shut down, it works until the monitor's screen goes black, ...
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How do I run a task on poweroff, but not on reboot, before a mount point is unmounted?
I have configured /etc/fstab to auto-mount an NFS share on startup;
I have also configured rsnapshot to backup some crucial system data (/home, /etc, ...) to the same NFS share by running rsnapshot -V ...
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How to identify shutdown event in linux
In my Ubuntu application, I wanted to perform certain finalization for my application before the system is being shutdown. For that, I need to identify the shutdown event in my application.
From what ...
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How to shutdown a PC at a specified time, with option to cancel?
I have been experimenting with the crontab file and making a .sh script file, but I haven't been able to either: cancel the shutdown or reliably show a message in the terminal as a "warning" ...
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Ubuntu doesn't power off completely
I am running ubuntu 24.04 and when I click the poweroff button top right corner, it doesn't fully shutdown. The screen goes off but the power light is still on and it seems to be still running because ...
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Does this mean I have a failing hard drive? My server keeps shutting down [closed]
I just installed Nextcloud and all of a sudden my server keeps randomly shutting down. I've done the following:
$ sudo smartctl --quietmode=errorsonly --all /dev/sda
and here is the output:
Num ...
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my touchpad doesn't work in ubuntu24.04 on thinkbook 16+ 2024 with intel Ultra 9 185H cpu
Help, my touchpad doesn't work in my laptop thinkbook 16+ 2024 ai with intel ultra9 185H cpu. Also, my laptop will power off when lid switches. How can i handle these two problems?
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Ubuntu 22.04: System shuts down after waking from sleep mode
So Currently i'm working in Awesome WM in ubuntu 22.04, on a Razor Blade 15 with 16GB ram, an intel i7 core cpu and an NVIDIA 1660 ti for the graphics card.
I've recently just picked up linux and i've ...
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Reboot in KDE hangs, but `sudo reboot` works
Ubuntu 22.04.
In Plasma/KDE, when I select reboot (or also shutdown), it usually hangs then. Some windows are still open, and I can sometimes even still interact with them (although window decorations ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 shuts down after a few minutes
I've recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my new machine alongside Windows 11.
Initially the installation went smooth (after updating my UEFI to the latest version) and the setup seemed to function as ...
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Why has my ubuntu machine started turning off randomly?
I have been using a laptop as a home server for about 2 months. It is running docker with 6 containers, I primarily access it through ssh or portainer. For some reason about a week ago it started ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.4 Still Auto-Updates Even After Disabling
Update 2024/05/08 - based on comments (thank you!):
I have never touched the innards of
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.
Don't see update-at-shutdown .
Here's what's in the file not ...
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The OS reoot it self automatically
Iam using ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and it is rebooting it self automatically from times times to times. The reboot append mostly when the baterry is low and i plugin the AC adapter, some times it append ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open top-panel menu of the logout screen in Ubuntu?
After I'm done using my laptop, I always first log out and then shutdown my laptop. Now, I want to able to do that using keyboard shortcuts, and arrow keys to access the menu options from the menu.
I ...
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Ubuntu journalctl message what is the meaning?
apr 26 19:21:59 daniel-ubuntu-dpc kernel: Linux version 6.5.0-28-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-098) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 12.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.38) ...
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Ubuntu closes down apps and the toolbar and icons get a weird symbol
So Ive had this twice now but both times were when I walked away. I cannot remember what I was doing the first time but this time I was running a python code overnight. The code should have run for 8 ...
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Is it possible to cancel GNOME's power off end session dialog using DBUS?
The object org.gnome.SessionManager.EndSessionDialog has a Close method which does actually close the dialog. However, the background timer will keep ticking and after 60 seconds (GNOME 42) it will ...
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22.04.4 will not power off
When I try to power off (e.g., using "Power Off" from the Gnome menu, or using sudo shutdown now) I just get a black screen with a white underscore, but the machine still runs unless I hard ...
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Ubuntu 22.4.04: How do I shut down without the confirmation prompt?
I use Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Default settings) (GNOME) on a NUC. I want to restart that machine within 5 seconds. However if a file, config or similar thing is still open the restart or shutdown ...
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Ubuntu has been stuck on "Starting System halt..." when halt it
When I run sudo halt on my Ubuntu virtual machine (in Windows 11), the screen has been stuck on "Starting System halt..." for over 15 minutes. I'm not sure if it has successfully halted or ...
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Random shutdowns - What's going on?
Not much more to say really. Computer keeps saying it's going to shutdown in 60 seconds. Super annoying. I think it happens once or more a day. I've been through the settings and can't see it ...
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This appears when the device is booting
This appears when the device is booting. What is the solution? I also have another problem: when I shut down the device, it opens again. If I solve these codes, will the problem be solved?
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Scheduled a computer to reboot everyday at 7AM, not sure if I did it correctly
Running Ubuntu 20.04, I have computers that I want to reboot everyday at 7AM. I followed these instructions, and I thought it was working, but now when I use the uptime command, it will often report ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS wont shutdown completely
Sometimes, my computer doesn't shut down properly. The screen goes black, the keyboard stops responding, and I have to hold down the power button to force it to shut down. I tried looking for ...
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