[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2013-03-04 Thread Stefanbowe
Hi, on one laptop (Lenovo T61w) switching to the nouveau-driver helped! All shutdowns completed successfully since then. The other laptop (Toshiba sattelite) has no NVIDIA-Card, so I am looking for another solution for it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu D

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2013-02-16 Thread Stefanbowe
I agree that it the cause does not seem to be a hardware issue. However, the result is a hardware issue in my case: Every time that I don’t realize that my laptop doesn‘t turn off, my battery runs empty. This decreases its capacity and lifetime. -- You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2013-02-13 Thread Stefanbowe
My Computers (see post above) are both running KDE (ever since). One of the Computers (Toshiba) does not have a nvidia card. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98722

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2013-01-06 Thread Stefanbowe
After sleeping a night over what I‘ve read so far, I had the following idea. We might have a race condition here. In this case it would many strange things seem plausible: that it doesn’t happen on every shutdown that acpi=force works on some machines that removing the nvidia-driver works somtim

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-12-31 Thread Stefanbowe
Hi, I report (potentially) the same bug for two laptops Both laptops worked fine with Lucid Lynx LTS until I upgraded them to Precise Pangolin LTS 1) Lenovo T61w: Shutdown usually works, somtimes (about one of 5-10 times) it doesnt. When it fails, the screen turns black anyways, I can only tell