Hi, I had upgraded my Ubuntu box since the Dapper release . After the Edgy, I had noticed that my computer no longer shutdown. I upgraded successively to Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy 8.04. Unfortunately my system still did not properly shutdown :(. The poweroff process hangs at "computer will now halt". Alt-Ctrl-Suppr does nothing but respawning a poweroff script.
I wonder if it is really an hardware problem, since an older version of Ubuntu can power off my computer. My hardware is not longer supported (AMD Athlon on a Soltek motherboard SL-75FRN2), so I cannot make any BIOS update. I also booted on my old rusty 2k4 Knoppix and it does shutdown. I fiddled also with kernel boot options (acpi/apm), but I only managed to get my computer going to hibernation mode. Pretty fun, but what I want is a complete power off :p Finally, I started banging on my keyboard like a mad monkey and I accidentally have discovered the magic SysRq key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key) kernel features are not disabled on my stock kernel (Linux Machine 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux). I can now happily and unsafely shutdown my computer but I hope this problem could be resolved one day. -- Shut Down won't power off with an ASUS P5GD1 motherboard https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42160 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
