Shutdown Problems W/Ubuntu 10.04

[rdh61]

Thanks!

[Sigma1]

Hi. I agree that you can just quit the quickstarter first, via the panel, then exit. It would be nice, though, if the GUI shutdown command forced quickstarter to exit, without having to work through things in two stages. Now, what I don't understand is how the command invoked by GUI shutdown differs from the command-line "halt" or "shutdown -P 0". The first obviously bugs because of OO Quickstarter, the second doesn't. If it were possible to personalise the command invoked by GUI shutdown, it ought to be possible to force the quickstarter to quit.
Hope things are clearer now!
(It's not a big bug, admittedly!)

[badaveil]

My dual boot office HP notebook (forgot what model, I'll check later) works fine with Ubuntu 9.10 but after a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.4 LTS was made, 3 problems immediately surfaced:

1. Cannot surf the Internet although system monitor shows connection has been made;
2. Cannot open any thumbdrive;
3. Cannot shutdown after selecting shutdown button.

I asked my IT programmer for help and now everything works fine. I asked him to email me the command lines he did and I record them here to share:

To overcome thumbdrive that cannot open:

dmesg

sudo su
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/pendrive/

To overcome internet linkages:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

To overcome shutdown that cannot shutdown:

sudo su
init 0

[pdadad]

same thing here here every once in a while my computer will not shutdown or restart.
IN my case I have identify my culprit seems to be Ooo quick starter if the shutdown does not work all I have to do is exit quick starter and shutdown and it works just fine

Thanks Showgun. This was a nice simple solution.

[Sigma1]

To overcome shutdown that cannot shutdown:

sudo su
init 0

Thanks for this post, but this doesn't look like a permanent fix, is it? By the way I think sudo init 0 should do the trick, without "sudo su". "sudo su" effectively transforms the user into superuser, which means that you can do anything without invoking sudo. Of course, if you're shutting down, it doesn't matter, but "sudo su" is a dangerous habit to get into, I think!
I imagine the answer for a permanent fix might be to edit /etc/init.d/halt but this lies beyond my capacities!

[ChadBurr76]

Is it I!. the only person with a shutdown problem with Ubuntu 10.04 this is day two for me and nobody yet has a shutting problem.See the thread I posted on day one. Thanks

My system is.

AMD Athlon 1400 Thunderbird
MSI Mother Board
GeForce 6200 256Kb
Ram 512Kb
52x33x52x CD Writer
350W Power Supply
Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1A USB
Tower Case

Hello this was the fix for me give it a try.Just for the record I downloaded the latest copy of Ubuntu 10.04LTS and did all the updates too. Be sure save after change, to update sudo update-grubsome users have found a permanent tweak:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

change : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

by : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi=force"

may not work for everyone

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Last edited by RichardSM; 1 Day Ago at 06:22 AM.. Reason: Solved

THANK YOU!
IBM Thinkpad R31
This solved my problem!

[stephenjudge]

There is a bug report on Launchpad for this, although it is marked Low importance and only affecting 31 people. Everybody here should go to this but and mark it as affecting them.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rg/+bug/562027

[rejuvenate]

the open office quick starter is never enabled in my system but still it is not shutting down, screen goes off and then i have to go for hard shutdown.....i do not have any problem with restart..i have edited the grub but it didn't worked...

[rejuvenate]

sry....i checked it now ..even my restart is not working and none of the command like
sudo halt
sudo init0
sudo poweroff..
for shutting down properly i need to log out then have to shut down..
the commands are working when i am logged in command line only

[MrGoodDude]

I have a Compaq Presario 6400nx. "kinforcenter" reports the computer is: Compaq Presario 06 DA234A-ABA 6400nx NA910 (version On31411RE101SALSA). "sudo lspci | grep VGA" reports: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] for the on-board video device. You can install kinfocenter with apt-get if it is not loaded on your system. Start kinfocenter from a terminal.

A solution that worked for me was to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. You must su to root or use "sudo gedit" to change the xorg.conf file. Make a backup first, so if something goes wrong, you can recover (sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak). In Section "Device", comment out or remove the line that contains "Driver "vesa". Restart the system. You may have to hold in the power button one last time to reboot. From this point on you will notice you can reboot or shutdown the system. The CPU will power down properly.

I also reinstalled the xorg savage driver. When I did, the system downloaded about 93K from the distribution site. I assume it did a small update, but did not notice any change in video performance.
Please let me know if this works for you. Good luck.