shutdown problem with Ubuntu 16.04?

[mrjayviper]

has anyone experienced shutdown/reboot issues? I tried shutting down/rebooting but I get the message like "Cannot reached shutdown.target/reboot.target"

I had to power-off the machine via unplugging it.

Has anyone encountered the same problem? I looked at /var/log/syslog and nothing shows up. I also tried "systemctl status xxxxx" (can't remember the exact command) and it's blank too.

I did a net search and the problem seems common but I haven't any fixes/workarounds (other than manually unplugging) yet!

Thanks

ps. I upgraded the installation via "apt-get upgrade" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" after first boot and then I restarted the machine.

 

[William Bonney]

can you still use

sudo shutdown -p now

and

sudo shutdown -r now

for poweroff / reboot, respectively?

or

sudo halt