Stop button not working

[NoOp]

On 04/19/2010 04:32 AM, Freddy Van Ingelgom wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to this list.

Welcome to the list.

> I have a Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Inspiron 17 with a strange problem: sometimes
> it refuses to stop, the appropriate button opens a window with  buttons stop
> and restart, but these are not reacting: system continuous to run and does
> not stop. I that case I have to open a terminal, sudo halt, and then the
> system stops normally.
> This weekend I installed *on another desktop computer* Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2,
> and I experience the same problem!
> Is this problem being reported already? Where can I find the solution?

When you say "stop" are you referring to "Shutdown"? One possibility
would be to try 'acpi=force' in the grub start command line & see if
that might help. You can sort through some of these to see if you can
find something specific to your systems:

<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=shutdown+won't+power+off&field.actions.search=Search>