Another 22.04 problem, reboot fails, have to power cycle

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 07:36, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 30 July 2022  at 21:35, Chris Green wrote:
> Another 22.04 problem, reboot fails (at least in part)
>
> I've seen this on 18.04, 20.04 and now 22.04 (maybe on 16.04 but not sure), I
> never chased it up, assumed it was hardware on that box, A Dell, it just sits
> on "F2 F12" window, so I tend to
>
> "shutdown now -P"
>
> then power on again, the box "should" boot from keyboard key but it has never
> worked that way, it's a Wireless USB KB so that may explain it
>
> >I have another problem after upgrading from 21.10 to 22.04, my system
> >won't reboot.
>
> >If I reboot the system (from command line or GUI) it shuts down and
> >hangs.  I have to power down and up again, then it boots OK.
>
> >Has anyone else had an issue like this and/or know how to fix it?

Make sure the BIOS/UEFI firmware on the mother board is up to date.

Look in /var/syslog to see if there are any clues there.

Does
sudo shutdown -r now
work?

Colin