Date: 2026apr26 Language: bash Q. Linux: shutdown inhibited - what can I do A. If you run:

shutdown

And get an message saying it cannot proceed because shutdown is inhibited, you can do:

systemctl -i poweroff

to override that. ------ Runing:

systemd-inhibited

will show what is doing the inhibiting. For me it was a normal Gnome login. So logging out would have removed those inhibits - but, of course, you cannot use the command line when you're logged out.