The problem seems related to this warning during the boot: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
It doesn't appear booting w/o "quiet splash".. googling i haven't found a working solution at the moment. -- karmic shutdown failure Thinkpad T40 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381134 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