Can someone help me please. I have been running antiX 13.2 for a while now without any problems what-so-ever. But i now find that i cannot shut down the laptop by going to the Menu -> Logout - > Shutdown. If i follow the path just mentioned the laptop will restart almost immediately. The only way i can shut down the laptop is by holding down the Power button. I have even tried opening a terminal signing in as root and then typing"Poweroff" which didn't help at all. Any help or advice is really appreciated. Thanks

Poweroff as root from a terminal usually works, so I'm thinking maybe a bit of corruption somewhere. Have you checked the filesystem lately(?).

Does 'shutdown -h' still work?

Edit: Although deprecated, also try shutdown -n.

have tried as"root" shutdown -h also shutdown -n but neither work?

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Sounds like a systemd upgrade to me.

I have opened a terminal and typed: cd /usr/local/bin and i then typed: cat exitantix.sh and the contents of the file is displayed on the screen. But how do i open the file to edit it please

Are you using the Debian testing repo or stable?

Open a terminal, type su, then rox.
In rox go to /usr/local/bin, right click on exitantix.sh and chooses open as text.

Hello anticapitalista
I opened a terminal signed in as root and then typed rox. I then went to /usr/local/bin right-clicked on exitantix.sh and selected open as text. I then changed both instances of halt to poweroff and then clicked on save. But the laptop is still booting up when i try to close it down. What am i doing wrong?

if ["$EXIT" ="shutdown_antix" ] ; then
if which persist-config &> /dev/null; then
sudo persist-config --shutdown --command halt
else
sudo halt
fi
fi

As a experiment

su to root in terminal again.
hit enter. Does the laptop power down all the way then?

You didn't answer the question.

Are you using the Debian testing repo or stable?

If you are using testing or sid, then systemd has taken over and the shutdown command is different. Try what rock suggests.

I am using Debian Stable

I used su to become root in the terminal and then typed: systemtl poweroff and the output was: Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager

Weird!

What if you type halt in a root terminal?

Also, post the output of cat / etc/sudoers.d/antixers (as root)

When i typed: halt as root the machine just rebooted

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When i tried to send you the output of cat / etc/sudoers.d/antixers (as root) i keep getting the Forbidden message

Put a space between / and etc/.