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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

When I run

shutdown -r now

(or click the restart button in XFCE) my laptop crashes. It will shutdown nice and tidy but when the line system restarting pops up, dog dies. The only way to do a reboot is shutdown -ph now and then boot up again (pushing the powerbutton).

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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

Bump

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stingray

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From: Lima, Peru SA

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 188

Re: shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

Does reboot work?

#reboot

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

I have a similar problem, although sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't... I can't offer a solution though. I think it may be kernel related, so I'm hoping a new kernel release sometime will fix it.

(Neither shutdown -r now or reboot works for me reliably)

Dusty

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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

# reboot also crashes the machine... some nice coloured stripes onscreen and that's it.

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odius

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Registered: 2007-11-08

Posts: 4

Re: shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

Reboot hangs for me as well on one of my systems.  The AMD 64/Nvidia machine reboots fine but the Intel/ATI machine I have will hang while restarting.  Both boxes are running the default 2.6.23-ARCH kernel.  The Intel/ATI system shuts down fine, but a restart will always hang the system requiring me to power off the box manually.  I don't yet have a solution, but thought I would post anyway.

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: shutdown -r now makes laptop crash

Lol, I got this too So is it a combination of fglrx, kernel and new hal?

Edit: oh yes its mostly shutting down that hangs for ages and i guess it turns off at some point.
(desktop amd and ati)

Last edited by Mikko777 (2007-11-08 20:02:42)

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