I have exactly the same problem (Acer TravelMate 662, Intel 855GM chipset).
The progress bar screen on shutdown does not appear and shutdown fails. On my laptop the HDD LED stays on forever. On startup orphaned inodes (ext3) have to be cleaned up, so umount on shutdown seems to fail and the HDD gets (slightly) corrupted. -- Shutdown bug on Toshiba Satellite A45 on Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231533 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