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Hardy Heron won't shut down.

Asked by Blaise

I upgraded to HH Beta a couple of days ago and now when ever I try to shut down X freezes up and it shows my wallpaper only. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace fixes it and it then continues to shut down normally but I was wondering if this is normal or because I am using Nvidia restricted drivers maybe? Any help would be appreciated.

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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said : 		#1

The full release of Hardy is out. Perhaps you are experiencing a bug which has been fixed in the full release version.

Give it a try, and if there is still an issue, then perhaps it may be a hardware issue

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unixchaos (jza873) said : 		#2

im having the same problem. it either stays on the background or goes black and shows the mouse pointer.
i use the work around: ctrl+f1
then i log in and type: sudo shutdown now
or
sudo reboot

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Blaise (nuclear2011) said : 		#3

Not sure but it seems to happen whenever I do anything once logged on (Log Off Switch User Reboot, Shut Down)

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unixchaos (jza873) said : 		#4

this is what i have figured out. because this has happened to me with every upgrade. every time i do d distro upgrade i get the same issue. no as an experiment i just burned the iso and reinstalled my os. not a big deal since my /home is on its own partition. and guess what problem solved. now if you dont wanna do this there are some other solutions i came up with. 1 get xdm and xfce for some reason this fixed it for me. personally im a kde person so i just deal with this issue. you could also turn off graphical logon and just run startx. then every time you shut down kdm xdm gdm never bother you. or just reinstall it. also you could all ways shut down when it freezes ctrl+alt+f1 and do: sudo shutdown now. now none of these are foxes there more of work arounds. but i think it has something to do while running the upgrade. turning off graphical logon seems to be the way to go. i dont use mine any more and never have the issue any more. just remember to set
XSESSION="the_desktopmanager_or_window_manager_you_want"

hope that can be of some solution

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Fr33d0m (wclark57) said : 		#5

A reinstall did not fix the problem for me.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

Please edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and add acpi=force to the default kernel parameter

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Search the row

# defoptions=........ your options

and add the "acpi=force" parameter

# defoptions=........ your options acpi=force

save and exit

then type:

sudo update-grub

Reboot your pc, then try to shutdown

To view what is the acpi is please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acpi

Always useful is the online Ubuntu doc https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/
Hope this help

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rainwalker (victi-resurgo) said : 		#7

marcobra - That didn't work for me, and I'm running the official release of Hardy

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