Ubuntu 8.10 Hanging at Shutdown Randomly

Jeff91 · 04-18-2009, 04:56 PM

I have Ubuntu 8.10 64bit installed on my Asus G1Sn, randomly when I tell it to shut down it will hang (meaning it stops at a point until I press and hold the power button) I went in and disabled my splash screen and here are the last three lines on screen before the shutdown stops:

Code:

* Deactivating swap ... [ OK ]
* Unmounting local filesystems [ OK ]
* Will now halt

Anyone have any idea how I can correct this?

~Jeff

dandart · 04-18-2009, 05:11 PM

Sounds to me like you have an ACPI problem.
Look in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file and see if there is any reference to "acpi=off" after the kernel loading options.

First entry
Eg
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel xx.xx.x.x.xx
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xx.x.xxx root=/dev/sda1 rw acpi=off?
initrd /boot/initrd-..-......

If there is, try removing it, if it doesn't start up again, edit the options in GRUB to add it again... it's usually there for a reason.
If there isn't, look for compatibility details about your computer, search "model acpi linux"?

Jeff91 · 04-22-2009, 04:04 PM

I still have yet to try ur fix for the shut down hanging (hoping to get around to it soon been busy with other stuff)

It also hangs (far less often) when booting, here where it hangs on boot up:

Code:

[   17.839479] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.1, id: 0xa3a0b3, caps: 0xa04713/0x10008
[   17.878724] input: Syn PS/2 Synaptics Touchpad as /devices/platform/l8042/serio4/input/input8
        [ OK ]

Do you think these issues might be linked?

~Jeff