Next experiment: sudo shutdown now (from either within Gnome terminal or from a "safe mode" boot) leads to the recovery menu, not to shutdown. If I click "resume boot" from the recovery menu, it gets to the last stage before it would normally give me a prompt (checking battery state) and freezes.
Unity folks, sorry for the misdiagnosis. Please reassign as you see fit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776803 Title: Natty does not shut down cleanly (enough for my BIOS) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/776803/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
