Same for me, updated 8.04 to 8.10 and OS won't shut down or restart, always hangs on ALSA. Otherwise all sound works normal.
I have an Acer Aspire 5670 Laptop, the sound card is something from Intel, Device Manager sees it as ALC883. -- intrepid halt loop on alsa https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs