Hello
Since the disaster of the update of the begin of may, the harware don’t stop on command halt.
On reboot command, nothing : it quit opensuse, the screen goes into standby mode.
On halt command, the computer won’t switch off.
Is this a result of the update?
Do you have any ideas on how to fix this problem?
Back in the old days (SysV), “poweroff” and “halt” did result in powering off the machine.
With systemd , the “halt” command results in the machine halting (stopping), but it’s not powered off. (it’s how it works for my machines).
I’m coming drom a dristro that will allways use SysV. I’m new on opensuse since 1 february 2026.
My commands was launched in a terminal : since begin may, I could no longer access the icons on the taskbar.
Today I can access my icons again.
But the proble is not solved : on clicking on reboot icon, The system freezes, the screen goes black and goes into standby mode, but the computer doesn’t switch off. However, it doesn’t reboot, so I have to perform a reset.
On clicking on halt icon, the screen goes black and goes into standby mode but the computer won’t switch off.
I have to force the computer to shut down by holding my finger on the power button for 5 seconds.
I can’t help you with your original problem. But at least for a proper shutdown / reboot:
In a terminal, as root:
systemctl poweroff
systemctl reboot
Since you mentioned clicking on icons: To get help you should tell people more about your system. Which DE are you using? Others may join in. I’m on Leap, so quite behind any DE version you may be using.
kasi042
I have used your commands :
On my machine, systemctl poweroff closes the files, logs me out and… turns off the screen, but doesn’t shut down the computer.
I still have to force a shutdown by holding down the power button for 5 seconds.
With systemctl reboot it’s the same, but no reboot. I must reset the machine.
I’m using Opensuse fully updated (not upgraded)
@Zlinux1
Try this to shutdown
/sbin/shutdown
This to reboot
/sbin/shutdown -r
You will see this after the command
~> /sbin/shutdown
Shutdown scheduled for Mon 2026-05-11 19:50:08 EDT, use 'shutdown -c' to cancel
So just wait a few seconds and will shutdown. Hope it work
one of the benefits of systemd is rather advanced logging, you can for example run sudo journalctl -b -1 | tail -n 100to see the last 100 lines of the system log in the previous boot, where shutdown failed to power off your hardware. Logs like this could be useful in analyzing why your system remains powered on.
You can then also pipe the output again into susepaste to not mess up this thread too much.
xm3t4l
Thanks for your message.
I had to instal wl (not installed by defalt).
the result for the last 10 lines :
It seems i not be able to use correctly susepaste : clicking on the clipbord, selected Firefox then a page Opensuse was open, clicking on “copy link to clipboard” give this (is that correct ?) :
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/e3c3783c14eb
I haven’t seen any errors, but the computer won’t shut down.
I suspect it’s a problem with the new kernel because I didn’t have this issue before upgrading to 7.0.X.
After snapshot “20260429” I had a similar issue, I could not power off my system, but reboot was possible. After entering “poweroff,” the system shut down (the LEDs and fans turned off), but it restarted about a second later. I had to switch off the power supply to stop the pc.
I also had the black screen issue, but not at every boot, but went back to snapshot “20260425” (kernel 6.19). s. https://forums.opensuse.org/t/boot-into-black-screen-after-update/193473