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Arch reboots instead of shutting down.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – As I said above "Thith doth driveth me nutth."Before I left three weeks ago shutdown was working.  So I come back and read pubby's post.  I next upgraded so my system would be current.Sure enough the bad penny returns.  If I select "shutdown" on the Xfce GUI menu, my system appears to shutdown but the power never turns off.  In effect what I get is a reboot.One difference between pubby's situation, apparently, and mine; if I open a terminal and do "halt -fihp" as root the system will shutdown as it should.In my experience software bug (HowTos)

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Submitted by Tagmego on 08/19/2011

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Probably slim xfce bug 1 year 20 weeks ago

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Hey gang. Simple but head-scratching problem. Sometimes, and only sometimes, my system refuses to shut down or reboot. Using either the Exit menu, or the requisite commands for shut down or reboot in Terminal, the system just sits and waits. I can use the system as normal while the ghosted box for Shutdown "Please Wait.." is on screen, indefinitely.

shutdown slowly 10 weeks 4 days ago

Any difference if you use KDE shutdown dialog, or use "sudo shutdown -h now" ?Are bundles unmounting cleanly?  Tried stopping bundles and running "cb-clean-lopps" before shutting down?

I don't mean to wield the Grammar Hammer here, but something that's been irking me on shutdown is a message that says "Shutting down, please standby" after you hit the "shutdown" button.On this side of the Atlantic, and maybe in Britain it's different, we'd say "please stand by" -- two words -- meaning to wait, as opposed to being on "standby,

Pressing the shutdown or restart buttons in XFCE simply logs me out and leaves the system running.

I did some Googling and it was suggested that by default users don't have permission to shutdown. (not sure how this is a XFCE specific problem in that case but moving on...)

I've taken the following advice found on this forum:

Some are fairly obvious. Specifically, I am referring to:

-h halt or power off after shutdown -H halt after shutdown (implies -h) -P power off after shutdown (implies -h)

Isn't halting or powering off kind of expected when you're shutting down?

Hi, I updated from Fedora11 to Fedora12. Now I would like reboot / Shutdown the system but it does not reboot. Whenever I click Reboot or shutdown, it comes back to login screen without booting.

Any help is highly appreciated before I press power off switch. Also, ABRT service is not running is flashing at corner.

Thanks for your time and help.

Hi All,

Since a fresh install of 11.10 (64 bit), the system does not shutdown or reboot (longest it has been left is overnight). Until I purged modemmanager, the processes were stopping on "modem-manager[xxx]: <info> Caught signal 15, shutting down... [fail]" or similar. It is not coming to "Killing all remaining processes...

This is very rare.