Shutdown Problems W/Ubuntu 10.04

[jvbn]

Well, I am having the same shutdown problem and even if by using some of the commands suggested I do finally succeed in shutting down my PC, I guess that should not be the way to do it all the time. So, I suppose that there is a little bug in Ubuntu 10.04, which should be fixed.

[Eliot Rosewater]

I'm having a shutdown problem too. Instead of shutting down and powering off my computer just restarts instead.

I've tried the command line alternatives, such as

# shutdown -P now
# poweroff

but the same problem occurs: my computer just restarts.


There's a bug report here, by the way:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/552316

[RichardSM]

I already tried it with "quiet splash acpi=force" but it doesn't work. Shout it work with "quiet acpi=force" (without "splash")?

Sven

Yes give it a try and see if it works for you just remove the word Splash Remember to update sudo update-grub

[swadrob]

My problem is similar to others mentioned as 10.04 shuts down ok but then immediately restarts. I can only shut down by by holding the on/off button. I upgraded from the previous ubuntu system 9.10

[usion1977]

well I'm no ubuntu expert but the fix for me was uninstalling Ubuntu Tweak. I read there are some bugs in the latest Ubuntu tweak and Ubuntu 10.04. Not sure if the bugs are related but just thought I would put my 2 cents in.
thanks

[usion1977]

Well sorry for the previous post. It was not ubuntu tweaks that did it for me. I forgot I also changed the Nvidea driver at the same time that I uninstall ubuntu tweaks. So it was the nvidea driver for me that was stopping ubuntu from restarting. When I tried to restart it would always go back to the login screen. Sorry for the confusion.
thanks

[Eliot Rosewater]

All suggestions are appreciated usion1977

As was pointed out on the bugs page, there are too separate issues here. One group of people can't restart/shutdown, while for the other group, whenever they want to shutdown Ubuntu just restarts.

Unfortunately I've found no fix for this.

EDIT I got a new new kernel, -22-generic, but it still doesn't work.

[Sigma1]

I too was unable to shutdown. Choosing "Shutdown" simply had no effect at all (likewise for "Reboot"). Killing the OpenOffice quickstarter seems to work. Is there someway of including this kill command as an option with the default GUI "Shutdown" command? (And, where do the commands associated with the graphic Shutdown menu hide?)
Thanks for any hints.

[rdh61]

I had the same problem and killed the openoffice quickstarter (stop it from loading in pref or disable in system start programs section) and have had no problems since. Worked for me.

Hi, not quite with you. Could you spell out for me in baby language how to stop or disable openoffice quickstarter? Thanks

[showgun22]

Just click on the open-office quickstarter icon and select disable systray quickstarter

but you can also simply exit it when the shutdown does not work