Comment 153 for bug 987220

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Gustav Andersson (6-gustav-q) wrote : Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

I was able to get shutdown to work correctly by booting with 'nomodeset'. It turns out I do not need acpi=force so this is all I need in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash noapic nomodeset"

and it works. (I still have the ctrl alt F1 problem though)