Unable to shutdown & reboot ubuntu 14.04

14.04 shutdown reboot

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Does any of the below work?

sudo shutdown -r now
sudo shutdown -H now
sudo shutdown -P now

sudo shutdown -rv now

will verbose you while trying a reboot.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

user299731 over 1 year

I'm using ubuntu 14.04 and I'm not able to shut down or reboot my laptop. After pressing the reboot/shutdown button it just shows the purple screen & 5 dots. I'm not able to understand where the problem is.
- user299731 almost 10 years
  
  yeah there is no issue in turning on the system
- jobin almost 10 years
  
  What do you get when you execute sudo poweroff and sudo reboot on a terminal?
- Tim almost 10 years
  
  Or sudo shutdown -P now
- user299731 almost 10 years
  
  i didn't try that, i'm trying to shutdown or reboot from the gui
- user299731 almost 10 years
  
  after executing sudo poweroff the same problem is persisting
- user299731 almost 10 years
  
  i tried it.this also didnt work, same problem is happening
- Tim almost 10 years
  
  So how do you shut it down?
- user299731 almost 10 years
  
  i'm hibernating it
user299731 almost 10 years

both the solutions didnt work
hwez almost 10 years

upgrade it again $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo shutdown -r