#1 2015-11-18 10:15:41

jeza08

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Registered: 2015-11-18

Posts: 3

Can't Power Off, Reboot, Suspend

Hello guys.
After years of using Crunchbang I started to test bunsenlabs on one of my old laptops - acer travelmate 2400.

Everything seems to be working smooth except for turning the laptop off.

If I invoke Power Off or Reboot from GUI or even if I use commands like

shutdown -h now

the result is always the same. The GUI shuts down quickly and I am left with black screen with cursor or with some text. Then I have to hold down the power button.

I tried passing different parameters at the time of boot as this article suggests, but no luck.

According to this thread I also tried altering the grub file:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

The laptop still won't shut down completly.

Depending on what parameters are set the power off hangs on blank screen or on screen with some text. Please see this picture, that might suggest to some of you what can possibly be wrong:

Crunchbang powers off and reboots normally on this laptop. The same applies for Win XP (dualboot).

I originally installed bunsenlabs from oficial iso RC1 using usb flas drive. Please be noted, that I noticed the same faulty behavior when powering off from live session.

Finally I tried to go with the netinstall approach. I installed just the basic version of Debian Jessie (without GUI), logged into its command line and tried to power off. The result was the same. So I am thinking its something embedded in Jessie itself (systemd?). After that I installed bunsenlabs on top of Jessie using your netinstall script - which worked prefectly btw :)

So now I have bunsenlabs installed using netinstall script. It works fine, but won't shut down or reboot.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated. I am out of ideas.

Thank you.

nobody

The Great

Registered: 2015-08-10

Posts: 3,655

Re: Can't Power Off, Reboot, Suspend

That's a systemd bug (or mood? hard to say). Similar reports filed under #788303. Ubuntu users know it, too. Problems of that sort have been around since forever.

Do you have active swap partitions?

jeza08

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Registered: 2015-11-18

Posts: 3

Re: Can't Power Off, Reboot, Suspend

Yes I do:

Device     Boot    Start       End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1             63   6152894  6152832    3G 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2        6152895  61271909 55119015 26,3G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3       61271971  96430079 35158109 16,8G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4  *    96430080 117209087 20779008  9,9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda5       61271973  94475097 33203125 15,9G  b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6       94476288  96430079  1953792  954M 82 Linux swap / Solaris

sda6 is logical partition with swap.

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 9,084

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Re: Can't Power Off, Reboot, Suspend

Will it shut down cleanly if you use:

systemctl poweroff -i

Or:

systemctl poweroff -f

Try removing (or commenting out) the swap line from /etc/fstab

You can also try booting with sysvint rather than systemd to confirm the root cause:
https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianU … _Jessie.3F

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jeza08

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Registered: 2015-11-18

Posts: 3

Re: Can't Power Off, Reboot, Suspend

Thank you for your tips so far.

systemctl poweroff -i

and

systemctl poweroff -f

are the same dead end...

Booting up without swap didn't solve the problem either.

Then I enabled swap again, installed sysvinit and sysvinit-core and added

init=/lib/sysvinit/init

to the end of line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=...

in /etc/default/grub. After

update-grub

the boot up sequence looked quite different, so I think I successfully booted up with sysvint. Unfortunately still no luck with powering down. Now I ended up with this screen after invoking the shut down:

Do you have any other suggestion how to debug this problem?

SejmL

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-11-15

Posts: 41

Re: Can't Power Off, Reboot, Suspend

i also had that bug the other day but woked fine today when i shut her down :S