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Hi Brian,<br>
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When you are powering up/down and you see the Ubuntu splash screen,
hit 'Esc.'<br>
<br>
This will show you the systemd screen. From there you might get an
idea on what is causing systemd to halt. <br>
<br>
You can also try this too:<br>
<br>
sudo journalctl -n 100 <br>
(displays the last 100 lines to journalctl)<br>
<br>
For more info on journalctl: <a
href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Journal">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Journal</a><br>
If you need assistance with reading the logs, just let us know. <br>
<br>
Also, Brian, I would look at getting a backup setup that will back
up the HDD automatically. <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Jared<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/10/19 11:26 AM, Brian O'Keefe
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<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Since I may not make meeting (niece visiting and Thurs. is her
last day) I'm putting my issue out for comment and hopefully
answers. As many of you know I used to updgrade instead of clean
installs and did that since Ubuntu 6.04. I had also added many
apps from third parties and also modified many, many conf files
to keep things working. I had a meltdown and lost much of my
data but following a partial recovery, thanks to a certain group
member, I installed a clean version of 18.04 onto a new 1TB SSD.
I have ot tinkered at all with 3rd party software nor modified
any conf files or been a bad boy in any way!</p>
<p>My issue ids that I cannot shut down my box in anyway other
than a hard shutdown. I also cannot restart it. I have tried the
GUI option as well as switching to text mode and using "sudo
shutdown now" or "sudo restart now". In those cases I get the
splash screen with the "traveling lights" and Unutu but it hangs
there. The traveling dots hang on the first dot of the splash
screen and nothing happens. I had hoped that text mode would
give give me an indication of the issues but I can't stay in
that mode for some reason. <br>
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<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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