Thanks. And that's why I decided to invalidate this bug. It happens to some, and not to others. My solution works for some, to some degree with others, and not at all for still others.
You're right about the the message; whether you turn it off or not has no bearing on the actual shutdown process. John On Friday 14 November 2008 17:03:46 ibex_rider wrote: > Hi all, > > To those reading this bug report trying to solve a "shutdown hangs" problem > with 8.10 : you might be suffering from a kernel bug as described there : > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11994 > > The symptoms are > - lots of "ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt > mode" lines in dmesg - power is not turned off when shutting down the > machine > > The confusing message that this bug report was initially about led me here > (thanks google), but my main concern being actually powering off the > computer, editing /etc/modules or /etc/init.d/halt was of little help. (the > latter did remove the "unable to iterate IDE devices:no such files or > directory", but it's harmless and I wouldn't have noticed it in the first > place if my laptop hadn't stopped powering off when told to do so ;-). > > To sum it up : some of us must wait for a kernel update. > > Note : FYI, I ran into this on an "old" Acer 1683WLMI laptop, where 7.10 > and 8.04 worked fine. -- John Glendening "I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here." -- halt：unable to iterate IDE devices:no such files or directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/193125 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
