Version 295.59 did not resolve the X crashes for me, so I went back to
290.10. I did not notice if version 295.59 resolved this issue.
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I also have a GeForce 8600 GT. I recently reverted to version 290.10 of
nvidia's binary driver because of Bug #973096 (random Xorg crashes.)
The reversion also seems to have solved my problems powering off the
system and changing to tty. It might be a coincidence, though.
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I recently reverted to the nvidia-drivers 290.10, to avoid X session
crashes. The laptop has shut down correctly since then. This may or
may not be related.
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I spoke too soon. The problem has recurred despite the workaround.
It seems to only happen now when shutting down. Restarting seems to
work correctly.
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Yes, that seems to have done it.
Thank you so much for your help. Now I have to finish restoring all
the packages and settings I killed when I installed the development
release.
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Hi Christopher, thanks for your instructions.
I ran your tests as well as I could.
The daily development .iso (Quantal) and the latest kernel (3.4.0--999)
both seem to restart and shut down correctly;
The development release produced internal errors, and the kernel broke
all my internet
Installing cups-filters from precise-proposed fixed the problem for me.
I had enough trouble stumbling through the process of applying the fix,
that perhaps someone with more experience could articulate the process
clearly for other users.
I think the required steps I followed were:
1) Add
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This is the same bug as #991977. Christopher Penalver was asking other
affected users to run ubuntu-bug linux in terminal, so I did.
When I shut down my Dell Inspiron 1520, some hardware continues to run.
Fans slow down, but they spin until the battery dies or else
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Ubuntu 12.04 fails to shut down the hardware.
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