I have this problem on a clean install of 11.10. AMD Sempron on Biostar 790 mobo. I installed 11.10 from a live CD of about a month ago, it worked fine, then updated and the problem appeared.
The machine sticks at the Kubuntu shutdown splash with the "balls" active, nothing else happens. I can't get a terminal or response to any key presses, but sometimes ctrl-del will bring up a full screen activity log. Usually (not always) it's stuck at trying to shutdown modem-manager with signal 15, there is [fail] in red on the RHS against it. More random pressing of ctrl-del or ctrl-alt-del gets it moving again, line at a time, until eventually it shuts down, BUT, it always reboots. No combination of shutdown -h -P -r now makes any difference, it ALWAYS reboots. I tried to kill modem-manager with sudo kill (process ID) before shutting down, but it wouldn't die. The only way to turn of the machine is the power switch, or sudo poweroff --force -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882817 Title: shutdown screen stuck after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Status in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: After the update from 11.04 to 11.10: when I shut down the pc sometimes it goes back to the login screen and then I have to do shutdown there which works well then. Sometimes the pc shuts down but ends with the ubuntu splash screen and gets stuck there. The issue may be driver related: I use the AMD/ATI FGLRX graphics driver. I have a second pc where I also did the update to 11.10 and there I have no problem at all but I don't use the above driver but the NVIDIA graphics driver. Both pc's have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/882817/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
