Shutdown taking a very long time

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#1

Hi everyone,
I seem to have the exact same problem that Phil here is facing ever since i updated to 16.04.
(Note: I did a fresh install of 16.04 over 15.10, not the upgrade from within 15.10). But there is a slight difference. If I try to graphically shutdown my laptop (the top panel button I mean) , it acts in a similar way to how Phil’s laptop does & I end up holding the power button to shut it down.
But if I type the command poweroff in the terminal , it seems to shutdown normally. I have been using the poweroff command ever since. And I am updating my system regularly. I will try some of the solutions posted here.

Model: Dell Vostro 3546
Make: 2014
Architecture: x64
Intel Core i5-4210U , Nvidia 820M 2GB graphics , 4Gigs RAM.

Acer Laptop not shutting down properly
#2

Hi @Brijesh_K_R,

have you done a full system update?:

#3

Please note some solutions proposed to @Phil_Claffey are against the intermittent freeze problem, not the shutdown hangup problem.

#4

Hi Folks,

I am still having the same issues three months on…

Any other ideas?

Cheers!

Phil

#5

On the ubuntu forums there us a similar thread, one of the recommendations is to unquiet grub. This gives a running commentary on the boot and shut down process. As I also have a random long shutdown on mate16.04, I’ve done this. The other day I had a long shutdown and the commentary ended at this point.
“Stopped Rise network interfaces” with a flashing cursor underneath it. When the text started scrolling again, it was too fast to read what followed, but it was only a page or so before it shut down.

I hope this helps somebody to work out what’s going on.

Mike

#6

We know what’s going on now, it’s issue #4 on this common problems thread: