Shutdown=Reboot problem

Steveocee · 30 Jan 2013 at 09:55

Hello all,

Weird issue where if I tell Ubuntu to shut down the system reboots. I have no idea how or why just that it does it every time I shut down.
Running 12.10

I have looked on google as Ubuntu forums and a few other have had it but threads ended there. No resolution.

Anyone help?

A.N.Other · 30 Jan 2013 at 11:08

Do 'sudo shutdown -h now' or 'sudo init 0' work, or do they restart too?

Steveocee · 2 Feb 2013 at 01:03

Yes they also reboot the system. It's weird as it pretty much does hard shut down. Then about 4 or 5 seconds after it switches on again.

dfarrall · 2 Feb 2013 at 12:56

Holding the power button down shut it down, or does it restart again? Tempted to say power button no case is faulty if so.

Steveocee · 3 Feb 2013 at 08:47

Defo not the button as the Win7 shutdown is fine.

melvis · 3 Feb 2013 at 10:09

out of curiosity is it a laptop? i remember the eeepc having a similar issue when it came out

Steveocee · 3 Feb 2013 at 15:36

melvis said:
out of curiosity is it a laptop? i remember the eeepc having a similar issue when it came out

Not a laptop, my i5 build's 2nd HDD

melvis · 3 Feb 2013 at 16:05

you could try running an update-grub, to rebuild the vmlinuz image.

inSilica · 3 Feb 2013 at 20:33

I'm no ubuntu expert but presumably it's running consolekit?

can you try the following?

Code:

sudo  dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop

Also what was said here:

A.N.Other said:
Do 'sudo shutdown -h now' or 'sudo init 0' work, or do they restart too?

Is the 'su'/'root' account configured? i.e. doing a 'shutdown -h now' while logged in as root.

I've seen this before, I think it was permission issue but I can't remember.