shutdown problem

[satimis]

Hi all,

poweroff
shutdown -h now

doesn't shut down the machine. Please advise. Thanks

Regards
satimis

[4D696B65]

Are you doing this as root?

[GarryRicketson]

The version of Debian might be relevant.
Are you logged as "root" when you run the command ?
What about :

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# systemctl poweroff 

[satimis]

The version of Debian might be relevant.
Are you logged as "root" when you run the command ?

Tried both, as root and with sudo

A black screen hanging resulted

What about :

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# systemctl poweroff 

Your advice works both as root and with sudo

Thanks

Regards
satimis

[Bulkley]

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systemctl poweroff 

This should work as a user; no need for root.

Note that you can reboot with

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systemctl reboot

[satimis]

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systemctl poweroff 

This should work as a user; no need for root.

Note that you can reboot with

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systemctl reboot

It works as user. Thanks

Tried

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$ systemctl poweroff

It also works but the black screen hanging a while before turning off

satimis

[GarryRicketson]

Good to see it works, I don't know why the traditional shutdown commands do not work though, seems like they should, but the newer versions of Debian have changed considerably, guess it is another "new feature".

[Bulkley]

. . . I don't know why the traditional shutdown commands do not work though, seems like they should, but the newer versions of Debian have changed considerably, guess it is another "new feature".

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shutdown -h now

works for me. I'm wondering if the big desktops are slow to unload. Being one of those terribly out of date old timers I habitually close all running programs before shutting down. Maybe that makes a difference. My WM is Openbox which shuts down easily.