[xubuntu-users] "Remote" Shutdown Hangs

[Benjamin Shadwick]

Have you verified that you're able to do it via the local terminal prompt,
just to narrow it down to being related to remote ssh?

What actual command are you using?


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Rog <linux.rog at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Attempts to shutdown Xubuntu 12.04.3 hang. I remote in using ssh.
>
> Suggestions on how to remotely shutdown and not have a hung system are
> sought. (The system was hung for two weeks after I assumed that a remote
> shutdown had succeeded when I left town back in December!)
>
> I can sudo reboot from a remote ssh session but not do a shutdown over ssh.
>
> When try to shutdown over ssh from another PC, afterwards I see, on the PC
> that I tried to shutdown, the following:
>
> First, the GUI / desktop closes and the shutdown progresses to this (as
> literally as I could transcribe it, including "<info>"):
>
> stopping Network connection manager wicd
>
> Start virtual private network daemon(s)
>
>     No VPN is running
>
>     Asking all remaining processes to terminate
>
> modem manager [2981]: <info> ModemManager (version 0.5.2.0) starting
>
> modem manager [2981] Could not get the system bus. Make sure the message
> bus daemon is running! Message: Failed to connect to socket
> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
>
> This modem-start / no such file sequence repeats twice with different
> numbers in square brackets, followed by a final modem manager starting
> message.
>
> Then, a hung PC with no response to ctrl-c or ctrl-d. Had to do a
> ctrl-alt-del to restart the system.
>
> Suggestions??
>
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