Hang on shutdown... How do I check what's wrong?

[jonashendrickx]

My Ubuntu 11.10 hangs on shutdown.

I have a ATI card installed with fglrx-updates installed.
I know ATI is crap with linux

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=808543

I however found this thread. Ubuntu 11.10 uses lightdm. While there is no lightdm in that file he is describing... Maybe that is the issue preventing to shut down?

Is there a way for me to find out what exactly is going wrong? a log file I could explore?

[plucky]

My Ubuntu 11.10 hangs on shutdown.

I have a ATI card installed with fglrx-updates installed.
I know ATI is crap with linux

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=808543

I however found this thread. Ubuntu 11.10 uses lightdm. While there is no lightdm in that file he is describing... Maybe that is the issue preventing to shut down?

Is there a way for me to find out what exactly is going wrong? a log file I could explore?

What are the specifications for your computer?

You could edit the /etc/default/grub file and remove the "quiet" from the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

so that it will print out text when your system starts and stops.You then have to run

sudo update-grub

to update the boot file so the text appears during the boot and shutdown phases.

You could also try to add "acpi=force" to the same file to see if it might be an acpi problem.

Good Luck

[jerrrys]

maybe

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/869635