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I have Ubuntu 14.04.2 installed on Lenovo Flex 2 laptop. My problem is that whenever I select shutdown from the menu, the laptop restarts instead of completely shutting down. Any idea why this might be happening?

Ubuntuser
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The shutdown from the UI rarely works for me. It has been very iffy in versions for the last 4 years.

Someone might be able to place insight on directly why. But for a resolution you can install cairo-dock and use that UI shutdown problem free.

You can install it with:

$ sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

Now run it from the Launch button. Use this alternate shutdown option. It'll work every time.

I didn't include this in my original answer because it appeared that you were trying to use the GUI.

This will also work every time:

$ sudo shutdown -h now

You can also reboot the computer by issuing:

$ sudo shutdown -r now

Check other cli shutdown options with:

$ man shutdown

Of course you can put this in a script and create a myshutdown.desktop icon to execute the shutdown script with a click.

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L. D. James
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  • This would not worry me too much currently I guess ;) If shutdown did not work, I would use hibernate instead. Because, unlike in previous 'Buntus, hibernate will always work as a true shutdown (at least here on my box) instead of a quick shutdown-and-restore as it is designed. IOW, I am always required to relogin, whilst with a working hibernate, I would not be required to do that. Worked great in Lubuntu Trusty. – syntaxerror Mar 05 '15 at 04:18
  • @syntaxerror: actully, hibernate does not wake up my wifi . i have to restart my system everytime i put my laptop to hibernate. – Ubuntuser Mar 05 '15 at 04:20
  • Yes, I can believe, read what I wrote. Most of it is totally broken at the moment. However, as I don't have wifi on the machine I was just speaking of, I can't make much judgment about this side of the issue. – syntaxerror Mar 05 '15 at 04:21
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You may create script for shutdown by executing following commands :

sudo gedit shutdown_system

and write sudo poweroff in the file and save it.

then change permission by chmod +x shutdown_system

Execute the file for shutting down the system.

./shutdown_system

Hope it helps!

Faizan Akram Dar
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