Hera won't shutdown

Question

I installed elementary a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed that when I clicked on shutdown in the menu, the screen would turn black, the system wouldn't respond and I would have to press the power button for the machine to be turned off.

After some digging I got into this site for systemd debugging, tried everything and nothing really happend so it may be a Kernel bug.

How can I troubleshoot this? Some more digging got me thinking it could be my hardware drivers on the kernel, is there anyway to solve this? I'll post my hardware if it's any help.

• Ryzen 3 3200g
• Msi b450m pro-m2 max
• 2x8gb T-Force 3200mhz ram
• 480gb WD SSD
• Evga 500w
• Grub dualboot Windows10

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

How to upgrade Elementary OS to the newest kernel.

Install necessary packages

sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev bison flex libssl-dev libelf-dev

To check hardware

sudo lspci

To check missing firmware

sudo update-initramfs -u

Make directories for firmware and kernel

mkdir /home/username/Downloads/amdgpu
mkdir /home/username/Downloads/kernel

To get rid of missing firmware errors for amdgpu

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vega20_ta.bin for module amdgpu ####

Download amdgpu

cd /home/username/Downloads/amdgpu
wget https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries/files/4124959/firmware-radeon-ucode-rock_2.110_all.deb.zip
unzip firmware-radeon-ucode-rock_2.110_all.deb.zip
sudo dpkg -i firmware-radeon-ucode-rock_2.110_all.deb

Source: https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries/issues/82

Download kernel 5.7.0

cd /home/username/Downloads/kernel
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.7.tar.xz
tar -xf linux-5.7.tar.xz
cd linux-5.7
cp -v /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
make menuconfig 

save config and then exit -> See source: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/compiling-linux-kernel-26.html

Then you have to chosee between make -j 4 or make -j - explanation below

use 4 core/thread - if your processor have 4 cores

make -j 4

use 8 core/thread - if your processor have 8 cores

make -j 8

Install modules

sudo make modules_install 

compile the kernel

sudo make install 

Update init ram and filesystem

sudo update-initramfs -c -k 5.7.0

ignore these errors below, just because those three bin files are not made yet

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_ta.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_dmcu.bin for module amdgpu

Update grub

sudo update-grub

Restart computer

sudo reboot

Check the kernel version

uname -mrs

To check missing firmware after compilation of new kernel

sudo update-initramfs -u

to check errors after reboot:

sudo journalctl -b
sudo dmesg