I'm using an old Dell Latitude C600, with an ATI Mobility 128 graphics chip.
The 'bug' --- random freeze ups on shutdown, with the screen progressively whitening out --- has occured on this machine as long as I have had Ubuntu on it (3 or so years). I have used other distros for short periods, but Ubuntu is the constant. From memory the bug has occurred with other distros too. If X is running shutting down from a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), does not guarantee success. My 'work around'---not always successful, but does seem to increase the chances of a successful shutdown---is to call up the log out/shut down options window, give the machine a 10-15 seconds to calm down, logout (another 10-15 secs.), then finally shutdown. FWIW, I know Ubuntu (other distros?), seem to sometimes have problems when setting up wifi on boot where a process starts before a prerequisite process has completed causing wifi to fail. I wonder whether there is a similar situation happening when shutting down X, i.e. a/some processes are not being given enough time to complete. Cheers, AL -- Jaunty: shutdown to hang on a blank screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71004 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
