Stuff I just tried (copied by hand): Blinking Cursor ALT-F2 eric-laptop login: (keyboard doesn't respond) CTRL-ALT-DEL init: rc6 process (14456) killed by signal 15 The system has reached a state where where are no jobs running. A shell will be spawned so that you may start such jobs that are necessary
type "exit" when finished [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# shutdown now [EMAIL PROTECTED]: <6>apm: Bios not found init: sulogin process (14943) killed by signal 9 init: rc1 process (14956) killed by signal 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#: exit exit init: rc5-sulogin process (15250) killed by signal 15 Ubuntu edgy (Development branch etc) typed login & password [EMAIL PROTECTED]:-$ sudo shutdown now broadcast message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/dev/tty2) at 16:48 The system is going down for maintainence NOW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: init rc2 process (15267) killed by signal 15 init: tty1 process (15277) killed by signal 15 init: tty3 process (15279) killed by signal 15 init: tty4 process (15280) killed by signal 15 init: tty5 process (15281) killed by signal 15 init: tty6 process (15282) killed by signal 15 init: tty2 process (15447) killed by signal 15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# kdm KDE starts shutdown from menu (no hibernation or suspend options listed) red screen kubuntu logo & progress bar power off. -- Toshiba Laptop Freezes on Shutdown or Reboot in Edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/63638 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs