Hello. I just upgraded one of my laptops to Ubuntu 8.10. Whenever I try to reboot or shutdown I run into some trouble.
Here is a sequence of events Within Gnome I do a restart or shutdown from the menu, the OS goes to the boot splash chugs away for awhile and then the screen blanks (even the back light turns off) however the system itself does not turn off or restart, there is no disk activity at all at this point, however the disk and fan are still spinning. I'm fairly certain the system has halted. I can manually turn the PC off by doing the usual power button for four seconds routine. When I restart the machine everything comes up clean. I turned off the boot splash and the last entry before the screen blanks is "acpid: exiting". The last entry in \var\log\messages before the reboot is <computer name> exiting on signal 15. All other power management operations work. Suspend, Hibernate, and Resume all work. The soft power button works (if you push it you get the shutdown menu) opening and closing the lid works as expected, disconnecting and reconnecting power also works (the laptops changes its power profile and dims or brightens the back light among other things). It is weird the only operations which don't work are the ones that usual do. Here are my details Ubuntu 8.10 with all Ubuntu patches as of January 17, 2009. Specifically kernel 2.6.27.19-generic. Trident graphics driver for X-Windows Laptop is a Toshiba R100 (model ppr10c-04m8z) BIOS 1.50 (there is a BIOS 1.60 available but it only has a microcode update for the processor). I also can't really install it right now since I don't have a USB floppy drive around. Does anybody have any clues or theories about why this might be happening? Craig _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
