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Hi All<br>As I said on a previous post about this problem is that it is well knowen<br>but the Ubuntu developers do not seem to think it is a serious enough<br>problem or not affecting a wide enough selection of hardware to require<br>any urgent action.<br>My hack is to go straight back to 8.04lts it works perfectly.<br>When they get 8.10 working straight out of the box on my hardware then<br>I might use it.<br>The old saying " If it ain't F----ed don't fix it" comes to mind.<br>Have a good weekend<br><br>Cheers<br>Innis <br> <br>> Ubuntu Bug #288863 - <br>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/288863<br>> <br>> I don't think they've gotten to the root cause yet, but there's a couple <br>> of suggestions for working around it.<br>> <br>> Personally, I just disabled the ALSA shutdown script:<br>> <br>> mv /etc/rc0.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc0.d/k50alsa-utils<br>> mv /etc/rc6.d/K50alsa-utils /etc/rc6.d/k50alsa-utils<br>> <br>> This is probably an ugly hack, but its fixed the problem for now.<br>> <br>> Adrian<br>> <br>> Innis Cunningham wrote:<br>> > Hi All<br>> > I downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 today and installed it only to find that it won't<br>> > shutdown.Is anyone else experiencing this problem?.<br>> > When the install finished and it ask for a restart the computer just hung.<br>> > The only way to shut down was to do a hard reset.<br>> > After that 8.10 booted ok but when I go to shutdown the computer once again<br>> > just hangs.By doing ctrl+alt+f1 and then ctrl+alt+f7 it seems it is hung on<br>> > shutting down alsa and the only way to get control again is to do a hard <br>> > shutdown<br>> > once again.So I have installed 8.04lts which seemed to load and run <br>> > fine.But I have<br>> > not tried to shut it down yet.<br>> > A second question if I may.The hard drive that I was using for the above <br>> > had three partitions<br>> > on it plus a swap partition on it.They being root,home and usr.Under the <br>> > new setup I just want<br>> > two partitions root and home.But by deleting the usr partition I don't <br>> > seem to be able to get<br>> > that space back for adding to the home partition.This is using the <br>> > partitioner in the Ubuntu<br>> > installer.Is there away to get the space back short of completely <br>> > repartitioning the drive.I don't<br>> > wish to have to do this as it will destroy all the data I have on the <br>> > home partition and I don't<br>> > want to do that unless there is no other option.<br>> > Thanks for any help you can give.<br>> > <br>> > Cheers<br>> > Innis<br>> > <br>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>> > http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>> > Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>> Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<br><br /><hr />Find great deals on eBay <a href='http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Frover%2Eebay%2Ecom%2Frover%2F1%2F705%2D10129%2D5668%2D323%2F4%3Fid%3D10&_t=763807330&_r=hotmailTAGLINES&_m=EXT' target='_new'>Net yourself a bargain</a></body>
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