On Tuesday 18 October 2016 14:40:40 Jack Warkentin wrote: > Hi Aravind > > I am having a similar problem, if not the identical one. I believe it is > a systemd issue. > > Here is a workaround that works for me. > > 1. Close all GUI windows and log out of the GUI. > > 2. Press Ctrl/Alt/F1 to obtain a console window. > > 3. Log in as root and shut down to single user mode using the command > > shutdown now
Out of interest, why not just do # shutdown -h now at this stage since you are already root and at a console? Why add in the extra stage? I shutdown this way quite often when I have problems, but can get to a console. Lisi > At the message saying that you need to issue the root password in order > to do system maintenance, issue the root password. > > 4. Shutdown the computer completely by issuing > > shutdown -h now > > I hope this helps. > > Regards > > Jack > > ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: > > Hello Sir > > > > This Is Aravind From India > > > > We Are Very Much Or Purely New To Debain And We Install Debian Jessie > > 8.6 In The Dell Inspiron i3551 And We Use Gnome GUI And While We Try To > > Shutdown The Computer It Dont Shutdown Properly And When We Try To > > Restart The Cmputer It Will Shutdown The System And We Didn't Know How > > To Solve The Problem And We Google It About The Issue We Didn't Find The > > Proper Answer For The Issue And We Are Requested The Team To Help Us To > > Resolve Problem. > > > > We Are Looking Forward From You. > > > > Thanks You > > > > Best Regards > > Aravind Kumar
