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shutdown hangs forever; doesn't shutdown

whenever i try to shutdown my computer (either clicking the xfce4 button to shutdown or typing shutdown/poweroff command), it hangs forever at this point:



so i'm forced to shutdown by mantaining the power button

the only way i've found, is using 'shutdown -h', which looks like it works, but is inconvenient

Re: shutdown hangs forever; doesn't shutdown

Reply #1 –
By chance are you using a Dell PC?

Re: shutdown hangs forever; doesn't shutdown

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Quote from: dark7void – on
the only way i've found, is using 'shutdown -h', which looks like it works, but is inconvenient

The options -h, -p, and -r all start the shutdown sequence, but with a different end result.

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sudo shutdown -h now # halt the system
sudo shutdown -p now # power off the system, equivalent to 'shutdown -Ph now'
sudo shutdown -r now # reboot the system

elogind also makes it easy to poweroff/reboot, and without root

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loginctl poweroff
loginctl reboot