Happens to me too. It's weird because I've installed the same Ubuntu on my other laptop and it shuts down just fine. I'm running an Asus Z63a (Pentium-M 1.73 Ghz 533 MHz FSB, 60Gb Samsung Spinpoint M HDD) The other laptop that works fine is an Asus M6Ne (Pentium-M 1.5 GHz 400 MHz FSB, 80Gb Toshiba HDD)
-- bad hard disk noise on shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/67810 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
