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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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