Shutdown Hangs on Installed System (V2.0-32 bit)

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then70,

If you haven't already done so, go ahead an install system updates as suggested by Dookus.  Then shutdown and restart twice.  (If first shutdown still hangs, then there might be slim possibility that an update needed one restart before it took effect.  If still hangs at second shutdown, then missing updates were not the problem.)

After searching a bit, found posts similar to this:  http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph...08#p861471.  I have no idea whether this will solve your problem or not, but it's worth a try.  Steps to try are outlined below.

Open terminal and make a backup copy of grub file you will change in later step

Code:

sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak

Now open the grub file in the leafpad text editor as root so you can make changes to it

Code:

gksu leafpad /etc/default/grub

In the opened file, add "radeon.dpm=0" to the end of the line starting with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".  For example, in mine the line looks like this:

Code:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

I would keep the "quiet splash" and add the above to end up with:

Code:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.dpm=0"

Save the file, close leafpad and you will be back at the terminal prompt.  In terminal run

Code:

sudo update-grub

Now close terminal and try shutting down.  Shutdown a second time if problem persists on first try.  If problem persists on second shutdown attempt, then above didn't work.  Reverse what you did as follows:

Rename the new grub you made

Code:

sudo mv /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bad

Restore the backup copy of grub to get the original back.

Code:

sudo cp /etc/default/grub.bak /etc/default/grub

Update grub again

Code:

sudo update-grub

When you post back here, give us output showing the changes you made that did not work -- just so we can double-check it.  (Most likely we won't find anything wrong, but who knows?)  Just paste output of

Code:

cat /etc/default/grub.bad