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FYI - Another thread discussing shutdown issues is located at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2140112&highlight=shutdown

See also Launchpad Bug #1170911

I also am having shutdown hang problem after upgrading 12.10 64bit to 13.04, 64bit. Shutdown stops with unmount failure messages. My syslog is:

May 1 07:49:34 richlinux anacron[21949]: Job...

See my post above, you might want to add your comments to the bug report.

In case anyone is following this:
This problem has been reported on Launchpad as bug #1170911

/etc/mtab/ contents:
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw 0 0
none...

I did an online upgrade from 12.10 64-bit to 13.04 64-bit. All is well except for shutdown. The "Terminating all processes" messages returns [FAIL] in red followed by messages indicating inability to...

Thanks for the pointer. I had been fighting this issue for weeks, never thought it might be the cable. I was able to configure 2560x1440 but the display was corrupt. With the proper cable the display...

Even though I don't have a good explanation for what happened, this thread is being marked as solved, there's nothing more to add. Hope this experience is useful to somebody.

This must be my lucky day. I just performed an upgrade to 12.04 online and it went perfectly. After reboot, everything was as before; desktop, email, startup apps, bookmarks and cookies and network...

Update, this morning I updated to 11.10 using the online update procedure. It went off without a hitch. Network performance is still good and still with the r8169 driver for the onboard Realtek NIC. ...

It has been a trying past few days. I have been running 11.10 for some time and the network performance has gotten worse over time. The PC has an onboard Realtek RTL8111/8168B network adapter....

I absolutely hate the auto maximise function. Hopefully, Ubuntu didn't incorporate that "feature" to stay up with Windows, I hate it there also.

See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1468755&page=3

post #25 maybe it will help

I cant explain why it does, but I got this to work. Here's how I did it:

Plug in USB flash drive
Launch palmiset, USB drive should be visible
Format the drive to NTFS
Use "Safe Removal"...

Once I figured out that Gparted needs to be run from a live CD (duh!) it was almost a no brainer. You do need to be familiar with Gparted:

1) Install new HD
2) Boot from Gparted Live CD -...

I dont claim to be an expert but I have had success running XP in Virtual Box and installing Office there, might be worth a try. I am not sure of your VBA requirements however.

Thanks, David.
I will report back when the new HD is intalled and mark the thread SOLVED.

Live long and prosper!

Thanks! I will investigate those utilities.

Thanks for the quick replies!!!

Digesting what has been said I can:

1) Install the new HD, power up and use gparted to partition it.

2) restore the data to the new HD

3) edit /etc/ftab...

My 9.10 system has three drives, one of which is reporting SMART alerts. Not wanting to take chances, a new drive is ordered and will be here in a day or two.

The failing drive is dedicated to...

affordable, reliable, secure, not Microsoft

5 words that sum it up for me

Another newbie with scanner problems here. I have two scanners attached, both are IEEE1394 interfaces. The Nikon Coolscan works fine and is seen by xsane and vuescan.
The problem is with an Epson...