8.10 Problem: System Hangs on Restart/Shutdown

[darkopsyho]

ok, I fixed it here by disabling alsa and switching to OSS:

sudo update-rc.d -f alsa remove
sudo update-rc.d -f alsa-utils remove

and then in system/preferences/sound chose OSS everywhere.

Can now reboot shutdown etc and sound is working as well.

Shut down is now working but amarok not...
Solution is to do nothing in system/preferensces/sound...

[poebae]

Shut down is now working but amarok not...
Solution is to do nothing in system/preferensces/sound...

If you disabled Alsa and switched to OSS, you'll have to tell Amarok to use OSS in the Engine settings.

[rakris]

No other solution other than disabling ALSA?

I dont think thats a good idea...

[ackounts]

This is the solution:


"Open the file /etc/init.d/alsa-utils with the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/init.d/alsa-utils

The file opens in Gedit and around the line 353 you'll find the instruction "stop)". Below this instruction you should add these two instructions:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down

So, the file should be this way:

stop)
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
EXITSTATUS=0

After doing this, save the file, close it and restart or shutdown Ubuntu and verify if the problem continues."


By Juliano from https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49799

Bye.

[rakris]

Cool. I will try this once i get home.

[alwayshere]

Thanks ackounts that worked a treat.

[thebearot]

akounts' solution fixed the problem on my machine.

Thanks!

[minisori]

... Same for high load cycle counts. No other distribution would cause a high load cycle count on my harddrive causing a slow painful death.. But well...

Above should fix this issue. You should be able to hibernate, suspend, reboot, everything.

Still, annoyance ³

But thats the price to pay for mass compatibility I guess.

That problem happend with all distros, it's a hardware problem related to buggy hd drives, so the blame goes for manufactures and their crappy firmwares :S. sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/(your hard drive) so it will not spin down.

In windows you probably don't see it because it's almost always reading from hd.

[cybrsaylr]

ackounts, solution also fixed the problem on my PC.

Thanks.

[FiggyG]

This is the solution:


"Open the file /etc/init.d/alsa-utils with the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/init.d/alsa-utils

The file opens in Gedit and around the line 353 you'll find the instruction "stop)". Below this instruction you should add these two instructions:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down

So, the file should be this way:

stop)
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
EXITSTATUS=0

After doing this, save the file, close it and restart or shutdown Ubuntu and verify if the problem continues."


By Juliano from https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49799

Bye.

It worked but I had to take another step.. I opened a terminal and ran:
$ ifconfig

wlan0 wasn't a valid adapter on my system, but ath0 was. Put that in, and it's fixed! I hope this helps someone who has an Atheros card to get it working.