For some reason I cannot shutdown via the panel icon, nor from the Logout menu. I seem to always have to use the terminal to issue the canonical shutdown -h now. Is it me?
Running 140R-20240126 AMD-64 with errata applied and updated via octopkg. Really pleased - just hunting down some small stuff.
Having this issue too. The panel icon certainly isn’t doing nothing though, when I click it again it claims it can’t power off unless idle, so it certainly is trying to power off.
I have a similar issue with reboot. shutdown -r or reboot will halt the machine and won’t reboot it. The reboot from the gui does work.
Sometimes I have to click the shutdown button a second time to poweroff. Sometimes it works with the first click, sometimes with a second try.
To make sure the device is completely off (as in FreeBSD I had problems thinking it was off and it wasn’t, it was still on and hot on the laptop’s base grids after an hour of supposedly being off, I never knew why… ).
So I shutdown from the terminal with:
# shutdown -p now
or
# halt -p
Both commands work very well.
You can also try using shutdown -p now or halt -p in the terminal. These commands completely turn off the system and might be a good alternative if the GUI options are inconsistent