Toshiba satellite S1800 cannot restart

odin_ago · 09-29-2011, 10:25 AM

I have recently installed Debian 6.0 to my old Toshiba satellite S1800 laptop, and it fails to restart when I say System - Restart in Gnome main menu or type reboot under root. It shuts down gdm3, so I see the text console, then there are some text lines, the last two of them are

Code:

[  some number ] Restarting system.
[  some number ] machine restart

and then nothing happens. If I try to shut down instead of restarting, computer shuts down ok, but I would like to be able to restart it remotely.

etech3 · 09-29-2011, 10:42 AM

In a terminal Try:

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shutdown -r now

which is reboot or:

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shutdown -h now

which is halt.

control+alt F1

Code:

reboot

does what?

odin_ago · 09-29-2011, 10:55 AM

shutdown -r now does the same as reboot, system hangs after the line "machine restart" I tried reboot before, see my first post. reboot from text console fails in the same way.

etech3 · 09-29-2011, 11:19 AM

OK how bout:

Code:

/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop

and do

Code:

reboot

You may want to do:

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apt-get update

and do a

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apt-get upgrade

You may also try shutting down the laptop and pull the power and the battery out to see if that may clear the problem.

odin_ago · 09-29-2011, 11:37 AM

I've tried all suggested soultions, but

Code:

reboot

still hangs at the same point.

I know that I can remove battery, but sometimes I have to reboot system remotely using ssh.

business_kid · 09-29-2011, 11:53 AM

There are differences between a reboot, a hard reset, and a cold restart. I don't have this stuff in my head, but search for it.Reboot does least; reset (not usually available on a laptop) does more, and cold start does the most - rereading shadow bios into ram etc.

Humour me and try stopping acpi just before reboot. You won't fry anything in 10 seconds. Fix anything?

odin_ago · 09-29-2011, 12:02 PM

Maybe it's a noobish question, but how do I stop apci ?

business_kid · 09-30-2011, 02:13 AM

Depending on your distro

/etc/rc.d/rc.acpi syop
service acpi(d) stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/acpi(d) stop

maybe just pkill acpid, & pgrep acpi to be sure it's gone.

odin_ago · 09-30-2011, 06:52 AM

I don't have /etc/rc.d, but neither

Code:

service acpid stop

nor

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pkill acpid

does not resolve the problem.

business_kid · 09-30-2011, 09:06 AM

ok, I'm out of firm ideas, something that doesn't happen very often. I suspect something not doing a proper reboot and it might be a 'known issue' with Toshiba owners, or owners of your particular laptop. Check that angle out on the web.