[Bug 1447038] Re: Shutdown/Restart of live session guest does not work in Virtualbox, and VMWare

[Thomas Ward]

I did some testing on this bug.

Due to some issues between me and the cdimage server, I ran the 20160129
image of Lubuntu Desktop in my QA testing VM, on my VMware Workstation
Pro 12 environments (both 32bit and 64bit).  There is indeed a "won't
shutdown" issue, but I think it's related to the prompt that shows up on
the other already-released ISOs for the main releases - it asks for the
user to hit "Enter" to reboot after ejecting or removing installation
media.  This does not display, though, so it looks like a "won't
shutdown ever" issue.


Given that I remembered this, though, in a test to see if this was the issue, I hit "Enter" at the blinking cursor I see when running this in VMware, when it appears to not "shut down".  This allows the system to shut down as it should, and hitting "Enter" then has the guest "live" session shut off as it should.

I think, then, that with the images, it may be a case that it is waiting
for the response to this prompt, hence the "Unlimited" task of waiting
for user input.  As referenced to in comment 25 here, the waiting for
the enter keystroke is what is hanging it up, and the splash screens not
showing up to show this is the main issue.

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Title:
  Shutdown/Restart of live session guest does not work in Virtualbox,
  and VMWare

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hardware: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e613830ce44594c5cf93

  Running a live guest, 20150422 15.04 image.  Cannot shutdown/restart
  using normal procedure/menu item.  Must hard power off the guest.

  Steps to reproduce:
  - Start up live session in Virtualbox or VMWare preferably with the latest daily ISO
  - Select "Shut Down" in the system GUI

  Expected results:
  - The system shuts down and the VM reports that it is shut down

  Actual results:
  - The system does not shut down and instead remains on a blank screen

  Known affected flavors:
  - Ubuntu
  - Xubuntu
  - Ubuntu GNOME
  - Lubuntu
  - Kubuntu
  - Ubuntu MATE

  Notes:
  - The bug does not occur after installation, only in the live session
  - Does not affect 14.10 and earlier

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