Shutdown Hangs

same problem with my dell latitude d400. when i go to shutdown or restart, the system hangs. i don't get as far as the splash screen, the screen just goes black and nothing happens. when i switch to tty, my screen just goes black and hangs.

this is after a clean install of hardy final. the only modification i've made is installing my wifi driver (broadcom b43xx) from the repository.

doesn't happen every time, but happens way more often than not.

I do not have the broadcom b43xx driver - ipw. The problem seems to be a segfault in halt ( rc0.d/S90halt )

yeah, i doubt it was the driver, just listing my modifications.

i tried Gutsy live cd on the same dell d400 and it had the same problem.

i forgot to mention that it also hangs when the laptop screen is closed and the power settings is set to blank screen on close.

after hardy and gutsy, i tried feisty. no problems with feisty on live cd, so i have it installed for the time being.

not sure if the problem would go away on gutsy after updates, but my internet is very slow at home, so i didn't want to wait to update only to find that it has the same problem. :)

Paul Tagliamonte - do you have the same problem when your settings is set to blank screen? if not, i might have a different problem.

Same problem -- settings and Lid. Also happens occasonally when lid is up.

i also forgot to mention that i have 2 laptops and 2 pcs. hardy works flawlessly with both my home-brew pcs and my compaq c700. it's just my dell d400 that has this problem. just thought i would mention this in case its a bug particular to certain hardware.

i found a few bug reports with similar descriptions. im going to try hardy again, this time with their workaround. ill post whether or not it worked tomorrow.

Paul - do you have an intel-855gm chipset for your graphics? if so, this might be the solution for both of us.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/204603
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/225958
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/138256

I do not. I have a nVidia GeForce Go 7600 ( 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1) ).

instructions on Bug #138256 fixed my problem and, as per the instructions, i posted my pci id here: Bug #228519

paul - i asked about our problem on a post for Bug #138256
i mentioned that you had a nvidia and asked if the same fix could be applied in your case. he said that he wasn't sure but that it was worth a try. hope it works!

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

No.

I have since moved past my laptop, and it seems that frankie has resolved a workaround. I am unable to test in Ibex

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