Shut down issues

[anon63071375]

@Timpani

Holding the power button on my physical desktop turns everything off perfectly fine, but when i try to press “Shut Down” in the bottom left corner,

Please don’t do this. This is a surefire way to eventually break something, especially if you went with btrfs. Please setup sysrq ASAP to avoid this.

[Tip] Enable Magic SysRq Key (REISUB)

The Linux kernel authors have provided a very nice feature of issuing low-level commands to the kernel directly, regardless of the state the system is in. This is called the “Magic SysRq Key”, because these commands are issued by pressing the SysRq key on the keyboard (if you can’t find it, typically, it shares the same physical key as the Print Screen key, but on some laptops it can be elsewhere). A common use is to reboot when the computer freezes and becomes unresponsive due to some software…

and a simple inxi -Faz --no-host will provide a lot of system info for folks to help you with/start you off with.

Please also check the LTS kernel as you noted. Sometimes there’s regressions on latest kernel. I for one used to always use the LTS kernel on my machines.