Ubuntu
xsplash package

  1. Bug #507555
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 507555

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RobertH (rh-roberthale) wrote :

Maybe this is a bug in ACPI.

I found the following work round (from various sources) which works for me:

Edit file /etc/modules: add line "apm" (no quotation marks)
Edit file /etc/default/grub: at GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT add "apm=power-off" in quotation marks and directly after any other kernel line commands without leaving a space between them (if I left a space it didn't work!)
Then in terminal type: sudo update-grub

After rebooting shutdown works normally.