Does the machine power off correctly if you close all your applications, and then do
sync; sudo poweroff -f This will directly tell the kernel to power off, without any userspace action in between. Hence the closing of applications and "sync" to write any outstanding data to the disk. You will also get an fsck on the next boot. If that still does not power off the machine, this is a kernel problem (which I suspect as you get to the "powering off" line). Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578015 Title: Yet another system hangs at shutdown (16.04) Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Yet another of the annoying "system hangs at shutdown" bug reports. A fresh complete install of 16.04. Just like the others, gets down to: Reached target shutdown then stops. I've tried all the workarounds discussed, including swapoff -a, before shutdown attempt, etc. No joy. Have to hold power switch for hard shutdown very time. One observation of possible value. I also very recently installed 16.04 server on two other identical boxes. Neither of them exhibit this problem and both shut down cleanly. Only this system, which is a 16.04 desktop version -- again on an identical box -- is having this problem. Frankly, it's stuff like this that makes my efforts to move ordinary consumers over to Linux very difficult! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1578015/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
