Same problem here on 8.10 RC (installed yesterday, october 26), hangs on shutting down alsa; I am going to try the trick. I am on an Asus A6000, sound card (from lspci):
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller [1039:7012] (rev a0) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1103] Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (13000ns min, 2750ns max) Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=256] Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=128] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0 -- storing ALSA mixer element values during shutdown hangs nondeterministically if non-loopback network interfaces are still up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs