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Questions tagged [shutdown]

Process of cleanly stopping the operating system so the system can be turned off

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Very slow shutdown on Windows 11

I have been having a nasty problem on my Windows 11 for a few weeks. Where Windows will take over 7 minutes to shutdown. I have an NVMe drive for Windows, and it boots to a fully functional windows in ...
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How to determine if GPU or PSU is causing shut downs?

I've been having consistent (15-20 minutes while under load) PC shutdowns that occurred spontaneously a few days ago. These shutdowns are like someone pulled the plug on my pc and then booted it up ...
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Computer freezes a few moments after startup and wake from sleep (not all the time, but often)

My computer has been freezing a few minutes after start up or wake from sleep, and I have to force shut down and turn it on before my PC will work again. Reliability history shows no error that comes ...
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Shutdown of Debian 12 stops until switching to virtual console 7

I installed Debian 12 (Bookworm) on a laptop (Acer Aspire 5). It is the only OS on the laptop and it was a fresh install. Everything works fine, but when I try do power off the laptop, KDE is closed ...
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Why it shows "User xxx is logged in on sshd“ warning when using shutdown close linux server?

I log a linux server by vscode's ssh method in Win10 (the terminal in vscode is like (base) [myname@localhost ~]$ )and I am not a super user of this server (that means I cannot use su). When the ...
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Windows 10 Auto user login after shutdown

My PC, which I keep ON for days, have a scheduled task to turn OFF (shutdown) a certain day of the week. It then turns on automatically after a few hours through BIOS settings. However, it stays on ...
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systemd: intercepting poweroff, shutdown, reboot and alert us we still have KVM QEMU guest(s) running

I want to interrupt a poweroff or reboot if KVM/QEMU Guests are still running. It should work regardless whether shutdown/reboot is requested from XFCE, or from terminal. I already have a script that ...
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Linux file recovery after unexpected shutdown

Yesterday, I was using a nano file to take important notes relating to university work. I had not saved the file at any point that day, and was actively taking notes throughout the day. Towards the ...
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Turning Fast Startup/Hiberboot off causes PC to stay on after shutdown

Fast Startup has been a cause of issues for our company, so we decided to turn it off by setting HiberbootEnabled to 0 in registry. That has caused one single PC (out of around 50 so far, this is ...
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Windows forces update [duplicate]

I have disabled updates on win 10 by going to run ->services.msc -> windwos updates. Now the trick is, unless you hibernate, shutting down and restarting deletes this setting, and windows update ...
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Laptop - is it safe when using force shutdown (deep shutdown)

My asus laptop (FA507RC) is facing the issue that battery drained even i did a completely shutdown. I found a solution here: solution (hold power button after the laptop shutdown) But i'm not sure ...
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Graphics card damage pin

I have RTX 2060 Graphics card. It randomly shutdown some times. When I removed it from motherboard then I realized that it has 2 half damage pin. Damage pin close-up: I notice, my PC shutdown under ...
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Find cause of startup BSOD connected with complete battery discharge

I get the following issue on my Lenovo Yoga C940-15IRH laptop (i7-9750H, Geforce 1650 Max-Q, 16GB RAM, 4K display): I work on battery, and turn the PC off (Shut down) with the battery well over 60% ...
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Not turning off completely the system. its going to the halt mode in Fedora

some time when i want to shutdown the system in fedora, the system not shutdown completely. in this problem screen is off but fan is working Not sure if this is relevant,but there are several errors ...
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Unix/Linux "shutdown": How to prevent wall message and terminal blocking?

I'm making a script that adds a layer of functionality on top of the shutdown command. It's intended to schedule a shutdown a while into the future, and sends out it's own wall message. How do I ...
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