I first installed Ubuntu 32-bit desktop some years ago (I believe 11.04) and have been upgrading it every six months. I am now up to 16.04 and have not ever experienced this shutdown problem.
Since Chrome no longer supports 32-bit, I have downloaded 16.04 64-bit (and verified the sha256). I have burned the 64-bit to both DVD and thumb drives. I can boot live from either and shutdown without a problem. If I install to a brand new SSD, I hang during shutdown. If I replace the SSD with the original HDD with 16.04 32-bit, I can shutdown without problem. I have found several suggestions on the Web to modify the /etc/default/grub file to solve the problem. My two /etc/default/grub files are identical so I don't see that as a problem. None of the following work, they just hang: shutdown -h now shutdown -P now reboot -p sudo reboot -f (Just responds “Rebooting” and then nothing.) sudo halt poweroff In summary, 11.04 (32-bit) upgraded to 11.10 upgraded to 12.04 upgraded to ... 16.04 shuts down without a problem while 16.04 clean install hangs. Maybe, given time, I'll download 16.04 32-bit and do a clean install to see what that will do. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582011 Title: Swap Failed, Indefinite hang on reboot/shutdown "Reached target Shutdown" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1582011/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
