I think that I have (partially) cracked it! I have dissassembled the initrd.img to find that the offending driver (r8169) is embedded in it. There needs to be some mechanism to blacklist such rogue drivers at the boot stage: is there a boot command line option which effect this?
John Hunter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779040 Title: System hangs (solid) early during shutdown -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
