[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Innis Cunningham]

Hi All
As I said on a previous post about this problem is that it is well knowen
but the Ubuntu developers do not seem to think it is a serious enough
problem or not affecting a wide enough selection of hardware to require
any urgent action.
My hack is to go straight back to 8.04lts it works perfectly.
When they get 8.10 working straight out of the box on my hardware then
I might use it.
The old saying " If it ain't F----ed don't fix it" comes to mind.
Have a good weekend

Cheers
Innis 
 
> 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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