> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:31:21 -0700 > From: "Craig McLean" <[email protected]> > Subject: [clug-talk] Ubuntu Reboot Difficulties > To: "'CLUG General'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <90b9226ab74045bfa59428aa626bf...@wiseone> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello. > > I just upgraded one of my laptops to Ubuntu 8.10. Whenever I try to > reboot > or shutdown I run into some trouble. > > Here is a sequence of events > Within Gnome I do a restart or shutdown from the menu, the OS goes to the > boot splash chugs away for awhile and then the screen blanks (even the > back > light turns off) however the system itself does not turn off or restart, > there is no disk activity at all at this point, however the disk and fan > are > still spinning. I'm fairly certain the system has halted. I can manually > turn the PC off by doing the usual power button for four seconds routine. > When I restart the machine everything comes up clean. > > I turned off the boot splash and the last entry before the screen blanks > is > "acpid: exiting". The last entry in \var\log\messages before the reboot > is > <computer name> exiting on signal 15. > > All other power management operations work. Suspend, Hibernate, and > Resume > all work. The soft power button works (if you push it you get the > shutdown > menu) opening and closing the lid works as expected, disconnecting and > reconnecting power also works (the laptops changes its power profile and > dims or brightens the back light among other things). It is weird the > only > operations which don't work are the ones that usual do. > > Here are my details > > Ubuntu 8.10 with all Ubuntu patches as of January 17, 2009. Specifically > kernel 2.6.27.19-generic. > > Trident graphics driver for X-Windows > > Laptop is a Toshiba R100 (model ppr10c-04m8z) BIOS 1.50 (there is a BIOS > 1.60 available but it only has a microcode update for the processor). I > also can't really install it right now since I don't have a USB floppy > drive > around. > > Does anybody have any clues or theories about why this might be happening? > > Craig > Yes, I ran into this running Kubuntu 8.10 under vmware. I googled around and found a couple of potential fixes, one being a patch that was already on, and the other an X system setting to restart X on logout which seemed to work. I'm a little hazy on the detail now, but if you google "ubuntu shutdown hang" I think you'll find quite a few folks have experienced it.
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