Does the machine power off correctly if you close all your applications, and then do
sync; sudo poweroff -f This will directly tell the kernel to power off, without any userspace action in between. Hence the closing of applications and "sync" to write any outstanding data to the disk. You will also get an fsck on the next boot. If that still does not power off the machine, this is a kernel problem (which I suspect as you get to the "powering off" line). Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578015 Title: Yet another system hangs at shutdown (16.04) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1578015/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs