Laptop Won’t Shut Down Properly – Need Help!

iroylearner111

See the image below. My uptime shows one day, but I shut down my laptop an hour ago. This suggests my laptop isn’t shutting down properly or might be going into hibernation instead. How can I solve this?

BuzzPCSOS

iroylearner111 You do not mention how you are shutting down your laptop. If you are using the power button then it's default behaviour is to put the machine into standby instead of powering off.
Power button behaviour can be changed from System Settings or equivalent depending on which version of Solus you are using.
Power off is also available from the icon in the Start menu and from CLI command sudo poweroff.
Putting your laptop into a sleep or hibernation state will generally use only use a very small amount of power whereas a failed shutdown due to another issue can lead to a much higher power drain. A good sanity check would be to make a note of battery charge state before shutting down for the night, then see how many percent the battery has drained while 'off'.

Axios

iroylearner111 I am on budgie and it seems to work properly
What flavor are you using maybe thats it.

After searching net and reading it appears that uptime doesnt count suspend as shutting down.
(If what I read is true)
Ran across this if a person wanted to set it up and make it work it seems to list shutdowns.
https://github.com/rfmoz/tuptime

This is prob the easiest tho
last -x -F reboot
Each entry in the output shows two timestamps where the first timestamp is for the system startup and the second is for the system shutdown. (You can prob correlate and see if its shutting down)

Note Did learn something from this command tho (That I am having shutdown crashes)
Interesting.

Am always amused at linux commands seems there is always one for something if you just know it..lol
Note: Not sure how above command acts with suspend so one would have to see in suspend what it reports.
It appears if it doesnt shutdown will show still running so that should help

Hope some of this is of use.

BuzzPCSOS

iroylearner111

iroylearner111 my laptop isn’t shutting down properly or might be going into hibernation instead. How can I solve this?

So does a Terminal poweroff command shut the power off properly?
An option is to make a ShutDown script.
Create an empty text file.
Open the file with your preferred text editor and paste this code.
#!/bin/bash shutdown -P now
Save the file as ShutDown (without .txt suffix)
Right click on ShutDown file and in properties set as 'is executable'
Executing this file (double click) will power down your laptop without needing the password.

Also it has been a while since I have used Budgie but I remember that one of the things that took me over to Plasma was the hit and miss way that the power button worked on Budgie. Sometimes it would shutdown, other times it would not. Shutdown from the start menu icon or the above Terminal script would always work.
Maybe try Plasma for a while.

iroylearner111

@"BuzzPCSOS

These are my power settings.

BuzzPCSOS

iroylearner111 That looks like it should.
Well worth trying to shut down from Terminal and see if that works more successfully than the power button.

iroylearner111

BuzzPCSOS Using the command for shutting down works better than the power button.

AlphaElwedritsch

Just an idea. Have you installed tlp and something for the power button in the config?

iroylearner111

Axios I'm Using Budgie too.

iroylearner111

BuzzPCSOS Thanks mate you said exactly what I wanted. I tried plasma few days ago and loved that but there I had sound issues. Like dummy audio. I posted my problem here https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10898-sound-issue-in-solus-plasma/7 and was unable to solve that issue. That;s why I had to switch back to Budgie.