Ubuntu 13.04 wont shut down?

My 32 bit OEM 1 gb ram wont shut down after I select 'shut down' from the drop box on the right top corner. Also, when I press the power button on the notebook nothing happens.
Help? The machine shuts down / restarts properly when the command prompt is used, 'suspends' then restarts after a few seconds: the output while in suspend contains a few errors; "device already exists", cannot hot-add device", "Link training error", "USB `1-3 device descriptor read 8 (read 64) error" , "failed to check link status"....there is additional code headings that can be referenced if need be.
The option to restart also is missing from the contents of the right hand top corner drop box. The initial error I did get twice on startup was that the software center had to 'close unexpectedly'.

edited Jul 6 '13 at 4:35

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Try using the command line sudo shutdown -r 0 for and tell us what messages you see. (That's like hitting "restart").

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 2:01

What kind of laptop do you have?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 3:16

its an OEM Durabook Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz × 2

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 5:14

is there a way to pause the shutdown long enough to read the output in the black shutdown screen?

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:23

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edited Jul 6 '13 at 4:35

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Try using the command line sudo shutdown -r 0 for and tell us what messages you see. (That's like hitting "restart").

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 2:01

What kind of laptop do you have?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 3:16

its an OEM Durabook Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz × 2

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 5:14

is there a way to pause the shutdown long enough to read the output in the black shutdown screen?

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:23

add a comment |

edited Jul 6 '13 at 4:35

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lightning

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edited Jul 6 '13 at 4:35

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david6

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lightning

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david6

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Try using the command line sudo shutdown -r 0 for and tell us what messages you see. (That's like hitting "restart").

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 2:01

What kind of laptop do you have?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 3:16

its an OEM Durabook Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz × 2

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 5:14

is there a way to pause the shutdown long enough to read the output in the black shutdown screen?

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:23

add a comment |

Try using the command line sudo shutdown -r 0 for and tell us what messages you see. (That's like hitting "restart").

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 2:01

What kind of laptop do you have?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 3:16

its an OEM Durabook Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz × 2

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 5:14

is there a way to pause the shutdown long enough to read the output in the black shutdown screen?

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:23

Try using the command line sudo shutdown -r 0 for and tell us what messages you see. (That's like hitting "restart").

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 2:01

What kind of laptop do you have?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 3:16

its an OEM Durabook Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz × 2

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 5:14

is there a way to pause the shutdown long enough to read the output in the black shutdown screen?

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:23

add a comment |

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Reinstall unity, This works on most cases, and it is reliable because you wont lose anything if something wrong happens ;)

Which drivers have you installed? and services (like apache) they may wont work properly on 13.04, write them so I check them myself and tell you if they have any problems on 13.04 ;)

EDIT: Does synaptic or apt-get commands give you errors?

edited Apr 27 '13 at 18:28

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

... It restarts and shuts down using the terminal shell without errors

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:32

I guess this is about unity, I've never felt that unity is a stable DE, have you tried reinstalling it? Do you have other desktop environments? do they have the same issue?

– Mohibeyki
Apr 27 '13 at 18:35

initially I installed the unity tool and I have since removed it. the situation is unchanged

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:07

runserver/sqlite is not working either

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:09

Do you mean Unity Tweak Tool? Did you mess with Unity settings?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 22:13

|
show 1 more comment

this could be caused by a permission issue.

my firefox wouldn't start from the launcher, but it starts from the terminal. do this and see if shutdown worksa after:

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2/

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2_private/

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

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maybe its a permission issue or maybe its Unity but that code didnt work.

– lightning
Apr 28 '13 at 17:21

add a comment |

I did the following recently to solve this problem of SHUTDOWN and automatic REBOOT again withing a second or two.

I have Intel Visual BIOS. On power up I pressed F2 > POWER > Wake On LAN from S4/S5.

This has 3 options. 1. Stay Off, 2. Power on - Normal Boot, and 3. Power on - PXE Boot. My computer was set to #2, which was making it automatically REBOOT after SHUTDOWN. I now changed to #1 option mentioned above. Now it is okay.

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

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Reinstall unity, This works on most cases, and it is reliable because you wont lose anything if something wrong happens ;)

Which drivers have you installed? and services (like apache) they may wont work properly on 13.04, write them so I check them myself and tell you if they have any problems on 13.04 ;)

EDIT: Does synaptic or apt-get commands give you errors?

edited Apr 27 '13 at 18:28

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

... It restarts and shuts down using the terminal shell without errors

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:32

I guess this is about unity, I've never felt that unity is a stable DE, have you tried reinstalling it? Do you have other desktop environments? do they have the same issue?

– Mohibeyki
Apr 27 '13 at 18:35

initially I installed the unity tool and I have since removed it. the situation is unchanged

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:07

runserver/sqlite is not working either

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:09

Do you mean Unity Tweak Tool? Did you mess with Unity settings?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 22:13

|
show 1 more comment

Reinstall unity, This works on most cases, and it is reliable because you wont lose anything if something wrong happens ;)

Which drivers have you installed? and services (like apache) they may wont work properly on 13.04, write them so I check them myself and tell you if they have any problems on 13.04 ;)

EDIT: Does synaptic or apt-get commands give you errors?

edited Apr 27 '13 at 18:28

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

... It restarts and shuts down using the terminal shell without errors

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:32

I guess this is about unity, I've never felt that unity is a stable DE, have you tried reinstalling it? Do you have other desktop environments? do they have the same issue?

– Mohibeyki
Apr 27 '13 at 18:35

initially I installed the unity tool and I have since removed it. the situation is unchanged

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:07

runserver/sqlite is not working either

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:09

Do you mean Unity Tweak Tool? Did you mess with Unity settings?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 22:13

|
show 1 more comment

Reinstall unity, This works on most cases, and it is reliable because you wont lose anything if something wrong happens ;)

Which drivers have you installed? and services (like apache) they may wont work properly on 13.04, write them so I check them myself and tell you if they have any problems on 13.04 ;)

EDIT: Does synaptic or apt-get commands give you errors?

edited Apr 27 '13 at 18:28

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

Reinstall unity, This works on most cases, and it is reliable because you wont lose anything if something wrong happens ;)

Which drivers have you installed? and services (like apache) they may wont work properly on 13.04, write them so I check them myself and tell you if they have any problems on 13.04 ;)

EDIT: Does synaptic or apt-get commands give you errors?

edited Apr 27 '13 at 18:28

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

edited Apr 27 '13 at 18:28

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

answered Apr 27 '13 at 18:22

Mohibeyki

12827

... It restarts and shuts down using the terminal shell without errors

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:32

I guess this is about unity, I've never felt that unity is a stable DE, have you tried reinstalling it? Do you have other desktop environments? do they have the same issue?

– Mohibeyki
Apr 27 '13 at 18:35

initially I installed the unity tool and I have since removed it. the situation is unchanged

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:07

runserver/sqlite is not working either

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:09

Do you mean Unity Tweak Tool? Did you mess with Unity settings?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 22:13

|
show 1 more comment

... It restarts and shuts down using the terminal shell without errors

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:32

I guess this is about unity, I've never felt that unity is a stable DE, have you tried reinstalling it? Do you have other desktop environments? do they have the same issue?

– Mohibeyki
Apr 27 '13 at 18:35

initially I installed the unity tool and I have since removed it. the situation is unchanged

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:07

runserver/sqlite is not working either

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:09

Do you mean Unity Tweak Tool? Did you mess with Unity settings?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 22:13

... It restarts and shuts down using the terminal shell without errors

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 18:32

I guess this is about unity, I've never felt that unity is a stable DE, have you tried reinstalling it? Do you have other desktop environments? do they have the same issue?

– Mohibeyki
Apr 27 '13 at 18:35

initially I installed the unity tool and I have since removed it. the situation is unchanged

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:07

runserver/sqlite is not working either

– lightning
Apr 27 '13 at 19:09

Do you mean Unity Tweak Tool? Did you mess with Unity settings?

– Brandon Bertelsen
Apr 27 '13 at 22:13

|
show 1 more comment

this could be caused by a permission issue.

my firefox wouldn't start from the launcher, but it starts from the terminal. do this and see if shutdown worksa after:

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2/

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2_private/

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

maybe its a permission issue or maybe its Unity but that code didnt work.

– lightning
Apr 28 '13 at 17:21

add a comment |

this could be caused by a permission issue.

my firefox wouldn't start from the launcher, but it starts from the terminal. do this and see if shutdown worksa after:

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2/

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2_private/

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

maybe its a permission issue or maybe its Unity but that code didnt work.

– lightning
Apr 28 '13 at 17:21

add a comment |

this could be caused by a permission issue.

my firefox wouldn't start from the launcher, but it starts from the terminal. do this and see if shutdown worksa after:

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2/

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2_private/

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

this could be caused by a permission issue.

my firefox wouldn't start from the launcher, but it starts from the terminal. do this and see if shutdown worksa after:

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2/

$ chown -hR $USER .gnome2_private/

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

edited Apr 28 '13 at 10:03

LtWorf

1559

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

answered Apr 28 '13 at 7:56

fromnaboo

1,6741107

maybe its a permission issue or maybe its Unity but that code didnt work.

– lightning
Apr 28 '13 at 17:21

add a comment |

maybe its a permission issue or maybe its Unity but that code didnt work.

– lightning
Apr 28 '13 at 17:21

maybe its a permission issue or maybe its Unity but that code didnt work.

– lightning
Apr 28 '13 at 17:21

add a comment |

I did the following recently to solve this problem of SHUTDOWN and automatic REBOOT again withing a second or two.

I have Intel Visual BIOS. On power up I pressed F2 > POWER > Wake On LAN from S4/S5.

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

add a comment |

I did the following recently to solve this problem of SHUTDOWN and automatic REBOOT again withing a second or two.

I have Intel Visual BIOS. On power up I pressed F2 > POWER > Wake On LAN from S4/S5.

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

add a comment |

I did the following recently to solve this problem of SHUTDOWN and automatic REBOOT again withing a second or two.

I have Intel Visual BIOS. On power up I pressed F2 > POWER > Wake On LAN from S4/S5.

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

I did the following recently to solve this problem of SHUTDOWN and automatic REBOOT again withing a second or two.

I have Intel Visual BIOS. On power up I pressed F2 > POWER > Wake On LAN from S4/S5.

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

answered Apr 27 '14 at 19:17

bluepearlsky

350313

add a comment |

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