[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Adrian Woodley]

Ubuntu Bug #288863 - 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/288863

I don't think they've gotten to the root cause yet, but there's a couple 
of suggestions for working around it.

Personally, I just disabled the ALSA shutdown script:

mv /etc/rc0.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc0.d/k50alsa-utils
mv /etc/rc6.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc6.d/k50alsa-utils

This is probably an ugly hack, but its fixed the problem for now.

Adrian

Innis Cunningham wrote:
> Hi All
> I downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 today and installed it only to find that it won't
> shutdown.Is anyone else experiencing  this problem?.
> When the install finished and it ask for a restart the computer just hung.
> The only way to shut down was to do a hard reset.
> After that 8.10 booted ok but when I go to shutdown the computer once again
> just hangs.By doing ctrl+alt+f1 and then ctrl+alt+f7 it seems it is hung on
> shutting down alsa and the only way to get control again is to do a hard 
> shutdown
> once again.So I have installed 8.04lts which seemed to load and run 
> fine.But I have
> not tried to shut it down yet.
> A second question if I may.The hard drive that I was using for the above 
> had three partitions
> on it plus a swap partition on it.They being root,home and usr.Under the 
> new setup I just want
> two partitions  root and home.But by deleting the usr partition I don't 
> seem to be able to get
> that space back for adding to the home partition.This is using the 
> partitioner in the Ubuntu
> installer.Is there away to get the space back short of completely 
> repartitioning the drive.I don't
> wish to have to do this as it will destroy all the data I have on the 
> home partition and I don't
> want to do that unless there is no other option.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> 
> Cheers
> Innis
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