Hi James, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/94161
Above is a bug that I originally thought might be a duplicate of my problem. However there seems to be allot of coverage on it in the comments at least, and not in a network-oriented direction as far as I can tell. So although the initial description of the problem is similar to my initial experience and it's the same machine, this other person is running Kubuntu and it looks like a large number fixes have been attempted. I posted a note with similar information on that one before making this report just in case my experience was useful there. I did not have enough information, given my limited knowledge, to be able to tell if this was potentially the same bug though. I tried to follow the conversation of the thread but was I was feeling lost a fair ways down. I've searched around ubuntuforums.org and found people with a variety of shutdown complaints of various descriptions, some of which seemed to be related to video cards and drivers. I saw a few though where people mentioned the same ethernet port output and ones that claimed the blank screen hang only some of the time (I'm guessing the ethernet/resolution combo) and most were using dell laptops. I've lost track of allot of that though because it was just read during intermittent searching over the past several months on the occasions I've gotten it into my head to try fixing this on my computer. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591229 The above link is a thread I've been watching for months and had posted to before I was able to determine any common factor or see any output with regards to my hang-ups. However, multiple people on this thread seem to also believe their problem to be "eth" or network manager related. A user named Silverglade00 is the first to bring up the ethernet problem and now that I review it also did have output to post. His is slightly different than mine but with similar results. User Setomider claims similar results There's also plenty of people who sound like they have unrelated shutdown hang-ups also posting on that thread. I've slowly tried every fix offered up on that thread with no results. At one point a couple of people claimed that simply uninstalling and reinstalling the packages network-manager and network-manager-gnome worked for them. When I tried this, the problem remained consistent. Many people on this thread have had success by adding reboot=b to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, however none of them where ones who can confirm having ethernet issues and some of the more detailed posts about reboot=b working describe a shutdown hang that had different symptoms and behavior than ours so I think it's an unrelated issue. As for me and others with the network problems, adding reboot=b did nothing. Once I was finally able to see the output I had heard mentioned before, I decided to write my own down and see if it could get anyone anywhere. Also, finally knowing that my internet connection *was* a definite factor between when it shutdown correctly and didn't gave me enough direction to experiment and confirm that I always get a good shutdown when wirelessly connected and always get a hung-up shutdown when the Ethernet cable is plugged in. The only experience I have with writing code was playing with QBasic and HTML between the ages of 11 and 13, so though I get some basic concepts I really know nothing. However I'm pretty brave about trying new things on my machine (all important data's always backed-up). So, if there's anything anyone would ever like me to try plunking into my computer I'd be happy to give it a whirl and report back results. Otherwise, if anyone has any further questions about my experience with this I'll try to answer them the best that I can. Thanks again, Broderick -- Shutdown hangs on ethernet ports in Dell Inspiron E1505 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197715 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
