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What ways are there to shut down a computer using ssh? I'm running on linux and when I try to shut it down remotely using ssh, it doesn't actually work. I used the command sudo shutdown now
. Afterwards, it said that the system is going down for maintenance NOW or whatever. However, when I got home, I came to discover that the computer was still on stuck on the Plymouth shut-down screen.
How can I achieve this?
6Have you tried:
su
, enter password,shutdown -h now
? – LPChip – 2015-04-28T22:14:08.0305This doesn't sound like a linux problem. This sounds like a hardware problem that your machine refuses to shut down after receiving the shutdown command. What is Plymouth? – hymie – 2015-04-29T00:28:02.557
2What distribution and version of Linux are you using? What messages are showing on the Plymouth shutdown screen? Can you edit your question to post a screenshot? Have you looked at the log files (e.g.,
/var/log/messages
)? Can you edit your question to include the relevant part of the log file from when you began the shutdown to when it got stuck? If you want a good diagnosis you should provide more information. – D.W. – 2015-04-29T01:32:35.220