I have an older nforce2 abit nf7-s amd motherboard. When I select shut down from the menu sometimes it shuts down fine and other times it just goes to a blank screen where it stays forever and I have to force it off. Any ideas on what would cause this? As far as I have seen, nothing shows up in the logs

ctl alt backspace is not a problem. I have done that a couple of million times already with no problems.

I might add that it also does it when I log off. I thought maybe I could be cleaver and log off before shutting down but that doesn't work either. I am wondering if it has something to do with X and my ati video card? Maybe I will try a different driver.

Just the other day I came across a site about installing ati drivers for ubuntu that had some kind of "blank screen fix" for ati cards. Perhaps that is my problem although I think that problem was for a blank screen when starting X. Anyone know what I am talking about?

Specs:
amd
1gb ram
sata
kde

Haven't had a chance to look into this yet. Maybe tonight or tomorrow. But I did find the site I was talking about the mentioned the blank screen problem, maybe I will try it

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

also similar problem here: https://answers.launchpad.net/distro...u/+ticket/2687

If you are running different kernel versions this might be the cause. One can halt the system, the other one don't (or is maybe wrongly configured)

Thanks for the input. I am only running the default kernels. The more I read the more it seems like this is an ati issue and not one with my motherboard. We will see next week when my nvidia card comes in the mail

Well I just thought of something. How do I disable the graphical shut down? I might be able to fix this that way...