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My Debian wheezy (64-bit) won't fully shut down. What I mean by this is that when I select "Shut Down..." from the menu the screen goes blank but the power button remains lit and front fan keeps working. Only after I hold down the power button for a 5 sec or so it actually shuts down fully...

Did some googling and usually power managment is blamed in these kind of situations. Here are some suspicious messages related to power managment in my /var/log/messages, in order of appearance:

 kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI Warning: FADT (revision 5) is longer than ACPI 2.0 version, truncating length 268 to 244 (20110623/tbfadt-288) kernel: [ 0.010862] x2apic not enabled, IRQ remapping init failed kernel: [ 0.485956] ACPI FADT declares the system doesn't support PCIe ASPM, so disable it kernel: [ 0.494932] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored kernel: [ 0.546125] PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug kernel: [ 0.747176] ERST: Table is not found! kernel: [ 0.747177] GHES: HEST is not enabled!

then there is few like the following two:

 kernel: [ 1.361930] ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110623/psargs-359) kernel: [ 1.361934] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.SPT0._GTF] (Node ffff88040f4b5290), AE_NOT_FOUND (20110623/psparse-536)

There is nothing in the kern.log or syslog that relates to shutdown (in the kern.log there is point which I can identify as startup but messages preceding that point aren't related to shutdown. syslog doesn't seem to have any intresting messages at all). Here is the few messages from messages at the time I did last restart (early this morning):

 Jul 3 01:03:49 shutdown[22028]: shutting down for system halt Jul 3 01:04:49 kernel: imklog 5.8.11, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jul 3 01:04:49 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.11" x-pid="2537" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start Jul 3 01:04:49 kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Jul 3 01:04:49 kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Jul 3 01:04:49 kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.2.0-4-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 Jul 3 01:04:49 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=751d0e52-b064-4503-be7c-11270f8089e3 ro quiet

When executing shutdown -h now in the root terminal the result is the same (not full shutdown) but there is more info in the syslog:

 Jul 3 14:58:04 shutdown[3929]: shutting down for system halt Jul 3 14:58:04 init: Switching to runlevel: 0 Jul 3 14:58:05 minissdpd[3235]: received signal 15, good-bye Jul 3 14:58:05 bluetoothd[3057]: Terminating Jul 3 14:58:05 avahi-daemon[3055]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Jul 3 14:58:05 avahi-daemon[3055]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::beee:7bff:fe74:647d. Jul 3 14:58:05 avahi-daemon[3055]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.101. Jul 3 14:58:05 pulseaudio[3683]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile. Jul 3 14:58:05 pulseaudio[3683]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_03.0" card_name="alsa_ca

and in messages:

 Jul 3 14:58:04 shutdown[3929]: shutting down for system halt Jul 3 14:58:05 kernel: [ 90.616600] colord-sane[3886]: segfault at 18 ip 00007fa8dc5a2543 sp 00007fa8cb9808c0 error 6 in libc-2.13.so[7fa8dc529000+182000]

BTW there is also VirtualBox installed and following message is in the log kernel: [ 38.497835] warning: VirtualBox uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) but I don't think thats really the issue...

So I'm looking for suggestions how to fix this. Should I update some driver or update BIOS or...? I'm really not an Linux power user so please be as specific as possible when additional information is needed or when you suggest some solution.

My system info:

 Release 7.5 (wheezy) 64-bit Kernel Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 GNOME 3.4.2 Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) Experience: Fallback 
 ASUS UEFI BIOS Utility Bios Version: 1005 x64 H87-PRO Build date: 01/02/2014 ME Version: 9.0.2.1345 South Bridge Stepping: 05/C2 CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.4GHz
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    Have you tried to look for log messages that occurred during the shutdown in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/kern.log? Maybe it logged something interesting when it failed to power down that could help to track this down. Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 10:58
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    Are you mounting any remote filesystems? Does it work if you disable networking before attempting to shut down? Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 11:16
  • @MartinvonWittich I edited my post with info about syslog and kern.log - nothing intresting in there as far as I see... perhaps I have to enable some debugging parameters to get more info? To terdon: no, I don't mount any remote filesystems. Only thing close to that is shared folders between host and virtualbox guests but I always shut down all VMs (and VBox GUI interface) before shutting down the host so that shouldn't be problem? Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 11:36
  • If you call shutdown -h now as root user, does it work? If you need more output, switching first to one of the consoles with e.g. "Ctrl-Alt-F1". Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 11:50
  • @jofel executed that command in root' terminal and there is more info in the logs now, see the update in the guestion. syslog suggest something wrong with the pulseaudio, messages have a segfault for colord-sane... Commented Jul 3, 2014 at 12:19

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Reset to default
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I have the same issue, I have no idea what is, to temporarily resolve this I created an alias in .bashrc.

alias poweroff='su -c "'"systemctl poweroff"'"'

alias restart='su -c "'"systemctl reboot"'"'

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  • That works for you? In my system I get error Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager. Commented Nov 28, 2014 at 14:58
  • Sorry, I forgot some double quotes. But yes, works for me. Surely you has booting with init instead systemctl. Do you have installed systemd Commented Dec 3, 2014 at 17:25
  • Yes, I use the default, ie init. I do have systemd installed (installed it about a year ago in an attempt to fix another problem) so I now pressed "e" in GRUB's menu and added init=/bin/systemd to appropriate line. After system came up I checked with ps -A that the proccess 1 is indeed systemd but when executing poweroff I still get the same behaviour, ie not complete shutdown. I fixed the quotes as you wrote so the command now executes without errors, but unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem... Commented Dec 4, 2014 at 15:00

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