11.10 will not power off laptop

[marcus aurelius]

I installed 64 bit desktop version of Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity - activated additional drivers (Broadcomm STA Wireless and ATI/AMD FGLRX Video drivers).

Configured Firefox and thunderbird and then installed printer driver.

When I come to shutdown the laptop I get the Ubuntu logo with the 5 dots (which should colour in as it shuts down), but nothing else happens..

I have left it for 10 mins and still nothing - no HDD activity or anything. The only way to shutdown / reboot is via holding the power button.

Laptop is a HP 6735S - 4 GB RAM, 300GB HDD.

Any ideas on how to identify / solve this?

[marcus aurelius (adbiz)]

I have same problem on my IBM/Lenovo C100 laptop.
sudo shutdown now would close down ubuntu but will hang and not shut down the laptop.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Thank you for this report. I've assigned it to "upstart" package so that its developers will be notified about it.
Than, you may be asked to provide some additional information about your system.

See also bug 781367.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[bperkey (bsperkey)]

Same issue with Compaq Presario CQ56 when rebooting or shutting down from command prompt. In addition, if I shutdown or reboot from the Unity "Shut Down" menu option a logout occurs followed by the login screen. Attempt to shutdown or reboot from LightDM does nothing...

[Rudy Sevile (rudy-sevile)]

I have an Asus N61J laptop with Ubuntu 11.10 64 bits installed (upgraded from 11.04).

It halts on shutdown and reboot, most of the time (but not all the time). The shutdown command does not help either.

[PrebenR (randhol)]

I have same problem on two 64-bit stationary PC and 32-but Asus Eee 1000H and 901.

sudo halt won't power down.