i'm having the same issue. That last kernel that would power off was 2.6.17. running shutdown -h now leaves me with just a _ on the screen. trying shutdown -h now in a rescue boot stops at 'Will now halt' then nothing.
Running on a sony vaio vgn-bx560b -- SONY VAIO VGN-BX DON'T POWER OFF UBUNTU 7.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185807 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
