[clug] Poweroff doesn't work, it just reboots

[George at Clug]

     Has anyone experienced this issue where you select "Shutdown" and
the computer shuts down and the reboots instead of staying shut down,
and know of a suitable fix?

I am using Debian Jessie with the Xfce interface on one computer, and
the other has a minimal installation, that is no GUI. Both have this
issue.

Below are links to similar issues, with varying and odd suggestions
for a solution.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712953

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=120365
http://askubuntu.com/questions/132882/why-do-i-get-a-reboot-instead-of-a-shutdown


https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66171

https://communities.intel.com/thread/47751



http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139612/debian-wheezy-rebooting-instead-of-powering-off




dpkg --purge kexec-tools

After reading this bug report [1] I added xhci_hcd.quirks=262144 to my
/etc/default/grub boot options.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766338

http://askubuntu.com/questions/26601/new-computer-hangs-on-shutdown-reboot-how-to-troubleshoot



 

   For Ubuntu 11.10, you could try the "reboot=bios" option (or other
options) :



(http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/08/04/howto-fix-linux-hangfreeze-during-reboots-and-restarts/)



1) Access the grub start-up file :



_cd .. && cd .. && sudo gedit etc/default/grub_



(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#A.2BAC8-boot.2BAC8-grub.2BAC8-grub.cfg)



2) Edit line 12 and save file :



GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="reboot=bios" (instead of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="")



3) Update grub:



_sudo update-grub_



4) Reboot your computer



(may hang on the purple screen, but hopefully for the last time...)








Links:
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[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66171