cannot shutdown / reboot laptop on 9.04

[Blackpegaz]

Hi,

Did you have an fsck error when you restart your laptop ?

[lisati]

Occasional similar problem on a Toshiba m200 laptop running 64-bit 9.04: seems to do pretty much everything it should and then when it's at the stage when you'd expect the power to go off, there's a blinking cursor at the top left of a blank screen. I haven't noticed any error messages, and the system seems to respond to Ctrl+Alt+Del by restarting the system.

BTW, using EXT3 in preference to EXT4

[liquerLOVER]

my lappy spec:
aspire 4520
GeForce 7000m
AR5007EG

after fresh install, my laptop cant shutdown. hang during shutdown.nid 2 press power button to turn it off. i dont know whteher its a bug. im facing the same problem since ubuntu 8.10, so i change to linux mint 6.

wireless out of the box but still, shutdown problem bringing me down

[maGot]

Same problem for me too. Dell Vostro 1500.

[peppers]

Same problem here, Toshiba Satellite A205-S4797.

[turboxs]

Same problem, HP-dv2617

[peppers]

Ctrl+Alt+Del shows me that KILLING ALL REMAINING PROCESSES have failed.

[regisinferni]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355054

[srikar]

Even i have the same problem.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1136387

[Dalgaim]

Same problem here - MSI GX620, 9.04 64b.

I tried to dig up some informatin by shutting down in console or by pressing ctrl+alt+f7 during the shutdown splash, but I ended up with "system wil now reboot" or something similar. When I try to shut down with full graphics (nvidia ge force 9600m gt), i'm stuck at dark gray screen (which seems to be an equivalent to the final console output). In both cases, pressing ctrl-alt-delete reboots the computer.

But, surprisingly, suspending to disk works just fine. If I go for suspend to disk, everything is as it should be - the computer is working with hdd for a while and then the computer turns off without any problem. After turnig on, it wakes up exactly as it should. This could be temporary solution - instead of shutdown, suspend to disk.

But I'd rather find some solid solution for the problem, so if anyone knows, i'll be very happy .

edit: when I added "acpi=off" and "reboot=b" (both without the quotes) options to boot options, i was able to reboot succesfully, but for shutdown it doesn't help at all and even disables the ctrl-alt-delete trick, not talking about acpi being turned off. I also tried using only one of both options and neither works.