Fabio - Did as instructed and it had the unexpected result of actually working, however, if i choose shutdown from the power menu, I see the following when the machine locks up:
Starting GNU distributed object mapper: gdomap. speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher * Starting the Winbind daemon [OK] * PulseAudo configured for per-user sessions saned disabled: edit /etc/default/saned * Enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support [OK] * Checking battery state... [OK] acpid: exiting Broadcast message from r...@rays-aspire-one (unknown) at 6:59... System is going down for halt NOW! init: tty4 main process (1126) killed by TERM signal init: tty5 main process (1132) killed by TERM signal init: tty2 main process (1140) killed by TERM signal init: tty3 main process (1141) killed by TERM signal init: tty6 main process (1146) killed by TERM signal init: cron main process (1157) killed by TERM signal init: tty1 main process (1270) killed by TERM signal Stopping GNUstep distributed object mapper: gdomap -- Ubuntu 10.10 freezes on shutdown and restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677899 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