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  1. Bug #987220
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 987220

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anders (anderspn) wrote : Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

I can confirm that changing to the virtual terminal also stops working. This may be caused by the binary nvidia driver for
the GeForce 8600M GT graphics card in my PC. I am currently using version 295.49 of the driver but both installed
drivers have the fault. I have used Ubuntu on this PC for several years without this problem so this bug was
introduced with 12.04.

I have tried "$ sudo poweroff" from a terminal and it fails. Shutdown from an remote ssh login also fails. Currently I do not have
any safe way to shut down the system.