[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-25 Thread Stefan Essl
@mc-monti: I am happy that it finally worked for you! ...and that everything is faster too! Btw. recently Linus Torvalds made a statement about nvidia... http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Torvalds-zeigt-Nvidia-den-Stinkefinger-1619616.html best regards from rainy vienna, austria stefan --

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-22 Thread Stefan Essl
Hi comrades, PCs seem to have learnt their lesson ;-) They shutdown and poower off. Ctrl-alt-f1 works. also the other consoles work. On some machines with a little lag but it works. @mc-monti: your problem seems to me very hardware-specific. Can you disable ACPI in BIOS? Did you ever had a

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-22 Thread Stefan Essl
@mc-monti: then there is a way how it can work, so we only have to find it! Are there any energy (ACPI) options in your BIOS, which could be adjusted? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-22 Thread Stefan Essl
I experienced similiar problems when notebooks (their CPU) are getting hot: - the machines stuck / freezes and i wasn't able to do anything. Machines got hot when the power management didn't work as expected...and the problem was the ACPI or APM configuration/manipulation in BIOS (if there was

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-22 Thread Stefan Essl
don't know if this is really useful, but it shows that the problem is not OS dependent. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=192864 What I read there is that there is an issue about the nvidia card driver and the kernel. So maybe if you just use a generic driver, it could solve

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-21 Thread Stefan Essl
Last Day - final test after loaded optimal BIOS defaults: first of all: YEESSS, they did all shutdown and power off without any hazzle! Hoooaaayy!! what and hoe did i test: starting at 9 a.m. i turned on all 7 PCs and logged in. 9:15 i shutdown the 1st and it did power off. 11:00 2 PCs had

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-20 Thread Stefan Essl
Day 3: Yesterday I did a BIOS configuration on 2 PCs: I told BIOS to load the optimized defaults and saved (F10) the configuration. The 2 PCs were the 2 were I tried the laptop-mode-tools, which worked as described above... Now after saving the BIOS settings, I tried today 3 times to shut

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-20 Thread Stefan Essl
Tested all 7 PCs with the default BIOS Settings: - all turned off via GUI not logged in = powered off! - all turned of via GUI logged in and all had an application running (firefox) and they were powered on for about an hour = powered off! Tomorrow i'll test them again, and hopefully all will

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-19 Thread Stefan Essl
First testrun today: 2 PCs never powered off after shut down - with noapic,nolapic - without noapic,nolapic always with sudo su - as root shutdown -h now sudo shutdown -h now didn't power off. GUI shutdown directly from login screen power off. tested once... 1 PC powered off from GUI shutdown

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-19 Thread Stefan Essl
so i googled around again and found the following: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113985p=2 I know, another distro another kernel. But it is quite the same phenonemon. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/4/121 is a report about some kernel issue, which maybe could be the cause... I tried:

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-19 Thread Stefan Essl
...and the third time I tried to shutdown the PC with laptop-mode-tools installed, did not power off after shutdown via GUI so this is a kind of russian roulette? new kernel feature? ;-) a little bit desperate stefan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Essl
I've installed Linux Mint 13 (Maya) Ubuntu 12.04 based on 6 PCs for educational purpose. Shutdown via GUI does not work at all. The PCs remain powered on, but no input is possible I tried to turn them off on a console but only one manages to power off after :~$ sudo shutdown -h now:~$

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Essl
...on next reboot I tried turn off again as root, but then it didn't work this is not funny...it reminds me on another OS I've used to struggle with on decade, and I'm happy that I nearly have anything to do with it! ...and of course I'll never be using that again! LINUX 4ever! -- You

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Essl
...also no poweroff after shutdown -h now in runlevel 1! kernel issue? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987220 Title: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Essl
upgraded two systems: :~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade After restart shutdown as user worked with final power down! Now I have kernel 3.2.0.25 Upgraded without any issuses! I'll try the other PCs and tell you if it also worked... best wishes

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Essl
so all 7 PCs power off finally! SOLUTION (in my case): upgrade to new kernel 3.2.0.25 [see last post] Thanks to all error-reporting people, so problems can get solved! Happy day and a long life! stefan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down chosen from GUI

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Essl
...too early... 4 PCs stuckk at power down :-( tomorrow i'll be after it again... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987220 Title: System does not power off reliably when Shut Down

[Bug 767085] Re: Package dante-client needs updated version dependency on libc6

2011-10-25 Thread Stefan Essl
yrg (zyrgzyrg) wrote on 2011-06-22: sudo ln -sf /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so ...made it work again! Thank you so much!! Problem exists in: Linux Mint 11 - i386 (ubuntu based) installation of dante-client worked fine: but configuration did not work... socksify