Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

[bongski55]

I've searched the forum and there are a handful of posts re the hanging problem on shutdown/restart. I don't know if this is due to my Dell Inspiron hardware but....
I have now installed Ubuntu in place of Kubuntu and have installed KDE...and guess what -NO HANGING ON SHUTDOWN/RESTART! No hacks installed,no reconfiguration...
so it is IMHO a Kubuntu Bug...

[Guest]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

It has recently been confirmed on launchpad on this issue. I hope they fix this ASAP cos I have similar problem too.

[Princey]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

I'm experiencing the same problem as well. However, I don't sweat over it much seeing that I found an easy work around. I found that typing

sudo shutdown now -r

resulted in a clean restart, so, I just created a script for it. If I remove the -r (for reboot) the shut down isn't clean though, so I just turn the comp off when it reboots before grub comes up. I know it's not the ideal, but it prevents me from getting file corruption on a dirty shutdown/reboot sequence.

[bailout]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

This is one of those problems that has been around for a long time and reported but doesn't seem to get fixed. I suppose it is difficult because it only affects some people and only occasionally but it is an annoying basic bug.

I have found that if I logout first and then shutdown from the kdm screen it doesn't happen.

[bongski55]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

kubuntu is supposed to be ubuntu with a kde gui. I am now using ubuntu with a kde gui....so I think it is in the way gnome was uninstalled in kubuntu that caused the problem..

[Snowhog]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

I have found that if I logout first and then shutdown from the kdm screen it doesn't happen.

As I too have had problems with restarts and shutdowns (I am dual booting M$ Vista and Kubuntu 7.04), I gave this a try. Voila!! Clean restart as one would expect to take place.

I wonder if the problem isn't one of timeing during the restart and/or shutdown sequences.

[tekkenlord]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

This problem has become extremely persistent and will eventually burn down the hard drive due to the hard reboots. I have tried every suggested method, even upgraded to the latest kernel 2.6.22 but the problem is still there. I sometimes get the same garbaged screen when I restart the X server using the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I also have noticed that when first logging out of the KDE and using shutdown/restart from the KDM it works flawlessly (at least until now...).

So my idea was to stop using KDM and use GDM instead. So far no problems with the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace but the shutdown/restart buttons are missing from the LogOut Dialog, so I cannot really tell if the problem is solved or not. If someone could find a fix to this I really believe it would work.

Thanks.

[txHarleyMan]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

I think the problem is with splash. I replaced splash with verbose in /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=a92bebe7-405d-4f9a-9ab7-7ce45f5eb5ae ro quiet verbose
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=a92bebe7-405d-4f9a-9ab7-7ce45f5eb5ae ro quiet verbose
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
quiet
savedefault

[tekkenlord]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

I have seen stated elsewhere that usplash is the problem so I deleted the "quiet splash" from the kernel lines (so now when I shutdown I do not see any progress bar but what the system does) but with no results. I do not know about the verbose option though. What exactly does it do?

[txHarleyMan]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

First, I would add quiet back in. quiet verbose

Verbose shows you in text mode on your screen what is going on. It solved my problems with Switch User, Restart, etc.....

[BigCLR]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

I had the same problem and fixed it by
adding
acpi=force
to the default kernel line in the grub list...

[Qqmike]

Re: Please Solve the Shutdown/Restart Hanging Problem!

re the shutdown/restart problem
I had it in both Kubuntu 6.10 and 7.04

Fixed it on my system with:

/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc - - in the [X-:*-Core] section (note the *): Remove the # from the line TerminateServer=True.


(Desktop, Intel D915GAVL mobo, embedded GMA video)