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 ..
thought it would be easier if i copy and past the fstab file.
not sure what i'm to be looking for. i tried to read through the link you sent.
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
/ was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=686f915f-beb7-4533-a258-7b22b742aa02 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
UUID=2A0E-8B28 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
edit :not sure why everything went to a different font size. i just copy and pasted the file.
For now don't edit the fstab file as you may break your boot.
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