Linux mint 18 hangs at shutdown

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I am being troubled by the infamous shutdown hang/freeze error. Whenever I shutdown mint, only the first dot on the splash screen turns green and then it kind of freezes. I also had this prob on Ubuntu 16.04.I intend to use linux for gaming. Here are my system specs-

           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.1)
           Distro: Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Machine:   Mobo: Intel model: DG33FB v: AAD81072-307
           Bios: Intel v: DPP3510J.86A.0407.2008.0218.0923 date: 02/18/2008
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19199
           clock speeds: max: 2394 MHz 1: 1596 MHz 2: 1596 MHz 3: 2128 MHz
           4: 1862 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-2 Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-21-generic
Network:   Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection
           driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 30e0 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: enp0s25 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (4.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HDS72101 size: 160.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 17G used: 5.4G (35%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.13GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 178 Uptime: 6 min Memory: 646.8/1990.4MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.421) inxi: 2.2.35

Turning off the network before shutting down makes no difference, so it isn't due to unreachable remote servers.

Reboot works fine.

Result of journalctl –boot -1 -e –full

Specifying boot ID has no effect, no persistent journal was found

Verbose booting had a fail line, which said something about not being able to load kernel modules.

Result of verbose shutdown(last two lines):

[OK] Reached target shutdown.
[54.278173] reboot: power down

Result of systemctl status

● lol-desktop
    State: degraded
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 1 units
    Since: Thu 2016-11-17 18:35:37 IST; 5min ago

P.S. I dual boot it with windows 7.

Best Answer

I fought two days with Linux Mint 18.3 system on a Dell 5577 laptop (Nvidia 1050). On shutdown or reboot the screen was black and nothing happened.

None of the following helped :(

  • modification of grub (adding GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="apm=power_off", "acpi=force", etc.)
  • disabling EuP (powering USB port on the switched off computer)

What helped :)

  • Select Menu -> Administration -> Driver management -> select nvidia driver instead of nouveau, wait patiently, because it lasts a little, first reboot or shutdown will fail, but after restart it finally works fine! :)

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