Most times the computer will turn off when I click shut down, but randomly it does not turn off. The screen shot is the output as the computer is trying to shut down. Any ideas of why the system randomly doesn’t turn off? How to fix it?
I think I might put a pin in this one until I do a re-install and put it on the hard drive actually in the computer. Maybe the external drive is causing the problem …
I wonder if it has something to do with mint Linux is installed on an external solid-state USB drive, I’m in the process of seeing if I like Linux before I do a full switch over, I wonder if the system isn’t shutting down a hair too soon before everything can be really stopped. Although when I read that output file that I pasted, it’s like the system is shutting down just not actually turning off. Just a thought that I had
This thread has some good info about how you could diagnose the problem.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/236476/how-do-i-diagnose-hang-on-shutdown