Hello,

I have a question on something that seems a bit bizarre to me.

If I click "restart" in the shutdown menu, the computer shuts down fine and starts to reboot normally, but then reaches a certain point where it freezes. Specifically, I get a tan screen (I'm in Gutsy, by the way), so before the wallpaper or panels are displayed, and the mouse pointer comes up, but it then stops. Always the same place. I can't move the mouse, and the disk is not spinning. I then have to power down and reboot, and it boots fine every time.

Also, if I just shutdown and then boot, that works fine. So it's got something to do with restarting, like it's setting a value somewhere just in restart that Ubuntu doesn't like. But what strikes me as weird is that it doesn't find what it doesn't like until pretty far along in the reboot process.

Anyone know more about the specifics of "restart" as opposed to simple "start" and what the problem might be?

Thanks.
I have an HP N5430, if it matters.