Xubuntu 13.04 and 13.10 can not make Reboot and Shutdown

[mörgæs]

Great, the best place for starting is the development forum.

You could just begin with trying 14.04 and post in the forum, if you find a bug which you would like to discuss before reporting.

[chris183]

Did you ever use a USB and remove it without either unmounting or (preferably) ejecting it? I saw the reference to USB0 in your earlier post, and since your root partition is "busy", I wondered if it is busy with something that appears as mounted but really isn't.

(Sorry about the incoherent description, but I've had troubles myself with mounted stuff not going away!)

Firstly, apologies for jumping in on this thread - but I'm experiencing SIMILAR problems.

I'm now on Xubuntu 12.04 BTW (from Ubuntu 12.04) - and all through earlier versions I had no problem, I also think that the problem appeared in a kernel update, however RESTART seems to work, but SHUTDOWN hangs.

I run XP32 HE/SP3 and Vista64 HPE/SP2 on separate HDs on this machine, Xubuntu on separate HD also.

Your remark about USB got me thinking that I have a 4GB usb stick PERMANENTLY plugged in that supposedly improves Vista startup . . . .

Could THIS be causing problems perhaps? - Removed stick - no change . . .

[EDIT - some extra detail - AMD64 3700 processor - SanDiego core (socket 939) on GigaByte GA-K8NF-9 (Rev1) Mobo - nForce4-4x chipset 4Gb Ram, video card GT6600/128Mb

Initial screen after initiating shutdown:

Xubuntu 12.04

modem manager [914]: <info> CAUGHT SIGNAL 15, shutting down . . .
speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher
nm-dispatcher.action: Caught signal 15, shutting down . . .
nm-dispatcher.action: Disconnected from the system bus, exiting [ OK ]
* Deconfiguring network interfaces. . . [ OK ]
* Deactivating swap. . . [ OK ]
umount: /run/lock: not mounted
umount /run/shm: not mounted
* Will now halt

[This screen then disappears to be replaced by THIS:]

[ 58.062177] <#MC> [<ffffffff81649f85>] panic+0x91/0x1a4
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8102ab0b>] mce_panic.part.14+0x18b/0x1c0
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8102aba0>] mce_panic+0x60/0xb0
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8102b877>] do_machine_check+0x427/0x600
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8166324c>] machine_check+0x1c/0x30
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8152b9d1>] ? pci_conf1_write+0x101/0x110
[ 58.062177] <<EOE>> [<ffffffff8152e224>] raw_pci_write+0x24/0x50
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8152e27c>] pci_write+0x2c/0x30
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff81331e21>] pci_write_config_word+0x71/0xa0
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff81335ac2>] pci_intx+0x52/0x90
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8134c3bd>] pci_intx_for_msi+0x1d/0x30
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8134d2fb>] pci_msi_shutdown+0x7b/0x100
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffffa001d4f2>] ? rt1_shutdown+0x172/0x1a0 [r8169]
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff81338d24>] pci_device_shutdown+0x34/0x50
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff813f8a45>] device_shutdown+0x15/0xd0
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8107f9fb>] kernel_shutdown_prepare+0x3b/0x50
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8107fa93>] kernel_power_off+0x13/0x50
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff81080657>] sys_reboot+0x147/0x280
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff811a9650>] ?__sync_filesystem+0x90/0x90
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff810602da>] ?__cond_resched+0x2a/0x40
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff816608d2>] ?_cond_resched+0x32/0x40
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff81015711>] ? math_state_restore+0x51/0x80
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff81663abe>] ? do_device_not_available+0xe/0x10
[ 58.062177] [<ffffffff8166b0c2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

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Any thoughts?

Best Regards

Chris183

[mörgæs]

As I mentioned the best you can do is to test the development version. If there's a non-security bug in an old kernel there's little chance that it will be fixed.

[Kurt_Alan]

I'm a new user of Xubuntu 14.04. I've noticed some weird glitchy stuff with respect to reboot and shutdown.

First, the shutdown icons on my panel often fail to function with a message that the session must close . . .

Second, I can shutdown from terminal but my pc goes into suspend or hibernate and I have to hold down the power button. This has never happened before and I've run various flavors of Ubuntu on this machine for seven years.

Reboot from terminal is fine.

Workaround:

I dumped the shutdown icons. Shutdown from terminal; then press power button until shutoff. I can live with workarounds . . .

[prookie]

Hello community,

I've changed a distribution from Xubuntu 14.04 to LXLE 14.04 and there is no more problem with the Reboot and Shutdown on my old laptop HP Compaq nx7300.

I guess that quality of distribution plays a big role also.

pRookie

[Irihapeti]

Thread closed. This refers to unsupported releases of Xubuntu.

If you wish to ask a question about current releases, please start a new thread in the relevant forum.