[SOLVED] Shutdown Broken

[porchrat]

How old is the machine you are running ubuntu on? I don't understand why you would need that "apm" setting as ACPI should perform all apm functions as apm is really old now.

Don't worry about the black screen thing, I was hoping the acpi=force would work for you. A lot of people experience the black screen with those settings and it is completely reversible by merely replacing your modified /boot/grub/menu.lst with the backup you made. To do that you type this:

sudo cp /boot/grub/backup/menu.lst.old /boot/grub/menu.lst

However before you try that let us know how old the computer is.

[Stunt Double]

After Ubuntu shuts down, wait for the lights to flash at the top right of your keyboard, then just shut it off at the power bar. I do it all the time with no problems.

[4Orbs]

After Ubuntu shuts down, wait for the lights to flash at the top right of your keyboard, then just shut it off at the power bar. I do it all the time with no problems.

I have tried more than a dozen Linux distros, and none of them will turn off the power at shutdown. My main concern is the horrible sound the hard drive makes when it spins down to stop. I found a thread on the forums here that offered a suggestion, I followed the suggestion and, by golly, it worked for me. It stopped the terrible HDD noise and shuts off the power as expected.

First, open the /etc/modules file as root in your text editor. If you use Xubuntu use mousepad rather than gedit text editor:

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

Then add this on the bottom as the last line of the file. Then save and close the text editor:

apm power_off=1

You gotta reboot once before it will work correctly.

As I said, it works for me in all versions of Ubuntu and Ubuntu derivatives that I have tried.

[.Garrett]

My laptop's about 3 years old - Built for XP SP2, Intel centrino, etc.

I had ubuntu (gutsy) installed on a 10-year-old machine before, and it worked fine.


It seems having can-suspend and can-hibernate set to true in the config editor is what's causing the problem. Disabling those fixes everything, so I'll just go without.

[porchrat]

Awesome I'm glad it is sorted. Sorry we couldn't be of more assistance.

On a side note does your machine really suspend and hibernate properly with all those ACPI problems??

[.Garrett]

Yeah, it actually did. Having them enabled made shutdown and restart not work though.

[rebaccawood911]

Thanks for valuable informations for shutdown broken.Below the codes are very useful for me and getting the shutdown broken problem, i need to use your codes
Code:
cd /boot/grub
sudo mkdir backup
sudo cp menu.lst backup/menu.lst.old
Code:
sudo cp /boot/grub/backup/menu.lst.old /boot/grub/menu.lst