12.04 LTS - Shutdown freezes after "Power down."

**bddenhartog** · December 20th, 2013

Hey there. I'm using a Gateway NE 522 series laptop, with the following hardware components:

AMD Quad-Core Processor A4-5000
AMD Radeon HD 8330

After doing a fresh install and software update via software updater, I am experiencing a halt at shutdown every time that I shut down.

I experience this issue every when I using the context menu to shut down, or when using any of the following commands:

sudo shutdown -P now
sudo halt

Pressing ESC after clicking shut down shows me the console, which shows me:

Code:

* Checking battery state... [ OK ]
acpid: exiting
Checking for running unattended-upgrades:
      speech-dispatcher disabled: edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher
                * Asking all remaining processes to terminate... [ OK ]

* Killing all remaining proceses... [fail]
nm-dispatcher.action: Caught signal 15, shutting down...
  * Deconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]
  * Deactivating swap... [ OK ]
  * Unmounting local filesystems... [ OK ]
umount: /run/lock: not mounted
umount: /run/shm: no mounted
mount: / is busy
  * Will now halt
[    96.301431] Power down.

The system then freezes, powered on, for an indefinite amount of time (read: forever).

This does not happen with restarts.

Please halp.

**wlraider70** · December 20th, 2013

try

Code:

sudo shutdown -h now

**bddenhartog** · December 20th, 2013

Originally Posted by wlraider70

try

Code:

sudo shutdown -h now

Same issue. ESC log has changed:

Code:

* Killing all remaining processes... [fail]
modem-manager [930]: <info> Caught signal 15, shutting down...

* Deconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]
* Deactivating swap... [ OK ]
umount: /run/lock: not mounted
umount: /run/shm: not mounted
* Will now halt
[    620.820309] Power down.

Then it stays on. Forever.