System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

I'm running kernel `3.2.0-3-amd64`on Wheezy. I use a ThinkPad T420. My first problem is that when I request my laptop to shutdown or reboot, it gets to the final [info] Will now halt. but then just hangs. I sometimes get messages from other kernel modules such as echi_hcd, sd, hda_intel and

Re: System will no poweroff, noisy boot.

(Apologies for the lack of an original message ID, I'm subscribed to the digest.) Sometimes it helps, to reinstall the kernel again. Also reinstalling grub might help, too. Hans: thank you for the tip. Sadly I don't know what happened, but the following commands successfully elided the noisy