Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

[weedy]

Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

Tried system upgrade to Kubuntu 10.04 and a fresh install of same and in either
case I cannot shutdown. With Kubuntu 9.10 this was not a problem.

What I get when I click "shutdown" is a dark screen with the following:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS kubuntu tty1
kubuntu login: acpid: exiting
init:tty5 main process (852)killed by TERM Signal
init:tty2 main process (857)killed by TERM Signal
init:tty3 main process (850)killed by TERM Signal
init:tty6 main process (860)killed by TERM Signal
init:tty1 main process (998)killed by TERM Signal
init: usplash main process (1679) terminated with status2

Then I get a flashing cursor and the system hangs.

I can do a CTRL+ALT+DELETE that just results in a reboot.

I also experienced a problem with my login which when I installed the system I
for automatic login but now I had to login manually.

I went to System Settings>Advanced>Login Manager to correct this and I found a tab named
"Shutdown" and there I saw that HALT pointed to the /sbin/halt directory.

I checked in root /sbin and found that "halt" is a shortcut and in its Properties
it tells me that "halt" is a shared library that points to...(wait for it!)
"REBOOT"

The "halt that is necessary to shutdown the system is not in /sbin.

As a matter of fact the "Poweroff" shortcut also points to "REBOOT"

I tried a change of the "halt" shortcut to have it point to "shutdown" which is in
/sbin, but that did not result in a shutdown.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this?

[dibl]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

sudo shutdown now -h

in a terminal should do it.

[weedy]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

Thank you for the information. I have seen this before and it does work. I'm beginning to believe that it is a hardware problem with my computer which has an Asus A8v-Deluxe mobo, AMD FX +3500 CPU and a slow AGP video card - ati series x1650.

Or this is a software bug for Kubuntu and not for my Ubuntu which resides on a second hard drive. No shutdown problems with Ubuntu. Both Ubuntu and Kubuntu are Lucid Lynx 10.04. I am not dual booting these two OS's presently.

Shut down is not a problem with my laptop which is a Lenovo Thinkpad R61i and has Kubuntu 10.04 as the only OS.

This problem has occurred per my review of Launchpad.

Thanks, again.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

If I had to guess - I start with ACPI and kernel parameters as the possible problem/fix.

The times I've had a similar problem it's been either APM or ACPI.

Are you using the same kernel and same boot options in both installs?

Have you reviewed your log files to see if any messages point at a culprit?

FYI: The "reboot" command has various functions that include:

LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_RESTART
LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT
LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF

Seems like you're getting HALT instead of POWER_OFF

I wonder if this thread is related: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...;topicseen#new

[jglen490]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

I've been dealing with the "shutdown w/poweroff = reboot" problem since I upgraded to Lucid. I got tired of manually turning off the laptop.

Filed a bug at Lauchpad:
Bug #598674 in Ubuntu: “alt/sysreq/reisuo Required to Power Off”

This is the ONE and ONLY problem that I have with Lucid. Everything else is really great.

[sithlord48]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

see on my machine clicking shutdown button and sometimes restart button, will just cause it to hang, but if i type

sudo shutdown -P now

or

sudo reboot

they work correctly.. it works perfectly on the netbook so i wonder what could be so different about the desktop (aside from the vast hw differences..)

[jglen490]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

see on my machine clicking shutdown button and sometimes restart button, will just cause it to hang, but if i type

sudo shutdown -P now

or

sudo reboot

they work correctly.. it works perfectly on the netbook so i wonder what could be so different about the desktop (aside from the vast hw differences..)

On my laptop if I select K->Leave->Shutdown, it halts but does not poweroff without either pressing the power button for 5 -7 seconds or entering alt/sysrq/reisuo. If I enter sudo shutdown -P now in a konsole, it reboots. If I enter ctlr/alt/del, same thing reboots. Something ain't right in Kubuntu-town because Kubuntu 9.10 shutdown with poweroff worked correctly

[oshunluvr]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

does sudo init 0 work?

[jglen490]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

I will try that tonight, thank you. Of course the object is to find out why Lucid has forgotten how to shutdown using the other methods, and to then fix the problem.

[jglen490]

Re: Help! Kubuntu won't shutdown.

does sudo init 0 work?

Tried that last night. Essentially the same result as ctrl/alt/del, selecting Shutdown, or entering sudo shutdown -P now; need to take some other action to power off.

Appreciate the input, though.