It's rejected because this is not considered a bug (there's no attempt made to prevent this behaviour, and no known method of doing so).
I suspect this may be occurring in the kernel somewhere. Could you compare the results of running the following for me: "halt --debug --force" vs. "halt --debug --force --interface-down" vs. "halt --debug --force --hard-disk-standby" vs. "halt --debug --force --hard-disk-standby --interface-down" Also please provide more information about your drives - how are they connected to your system? (IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB?) -- Hard disk stops and restarts on shut down https://launchpad.net/bugs/61763 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
