<Solved>2010.12

[gezza]

Hi To all,
I have just installed 2010.12 on a Compaq Presario B3800.
It will not shutdown!!!
I have to open a terminal login as root then issue the shutdown command. It then shuts down
The checksum is ok and the media test passes.
Any thoughts.
Gezza
Another thing I have just found----
I can look at/see 'you tube' videos but not hear any sound.
Any thoughts
Many thanks and a MERRY Christmas To You all.
Gezza
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Hi Guys
KDE latest upgrade
I will have a look at the laptop later today to see if latest updates cure this problem.
Gezza
Sorry guys,
There is no sound at all!!
the shutdown command I use is--shutdown -h now.
It works whereas the graphic shutdown does not.
Gezza.

[The Chief]

Been happening to me now and then, with an older install, but fully updated.  After a manual shutdown, it's good for awhile (how long yet to be determined) and then suddenly won't shutdown, so do it all again. 

[2010 KDE, fully updated]

[menotu]

gezza - which DE is it? KDE or Gnome or..........?

[uncleV]

It will not shutdown!!!

Not bad if you describe how do you shutdown.

[The Chief]

Update: 
It appears it may be related to suspend/hibernation!  If I let the laptop suspend or hibernate, then it won't shutdown as normal (the menu or the widget).  Either one does nothing.  When i's in this state, the only icons on the 'System Tray' are the battery and the notifier.  No volume control, clipboard, net applet or dropbox.

And I may have to do the terminal 'shutdown -h now' thing twice before it's back to normal.

[v_andal]

There were few kernel versions that had bug with hibernation and shutdown. I believe it was fixed in 2.6.35. At least my laptop started to work just recently and currently it has 2.6.36 (it does not have PCLinuxOS).

[wayne1932]

Maybe machine dependent too.  My laptop is a Dell D610.   KDE fully updated, and it shuts down, suspends to ram and suspends to harddrive very nicely.  Unless there is a difference between fully updated and 2010.12, then I suspect it is probably differences in the hardware.

Edit:  I'm also using the stock kernel,  2.6.32btfs.  (I think that's the number.)

[v_andal]

Definitely. On my laptop after shutdown, the closure of the lid would turn the laptop on again. Someone else was describing completely different behavior but still connected with power-down and lid closure. And of course for some other hardware everything was fine. The newer kernel versions have fixed those problems, at least for those who participated in discussion on gentoo forum.

[menotu]

Maybe machine dependent too.  My laptop is a Dell D610.   KDE fully updated, and it shuts down, suspends to ram and suspends to harddrive very nicely.  Unless there is a difference between fully updated and 2010.12, then I suspect it is probably differences in the hardware.

Edit:  I'm also using the stock kernel,  2.6.32btfs.  (I think that's the number.)

Maybe machine dependent   

+1

The laptop my wife uses and my own one both shutdown / suspend / hibernate etc very well indeed. (Both KDE 4.5.4 - 2010.x )

Mind you this has been an ongoing problem regardless of which OS/platform is being used. I've seen two identical machines behave differently - one worked perfectly and t'other would occasionally get a huff on and stop hibernating........

[The Chief]

Edit:  I'm also using the stock kernel,  2.6.32btfs.  (I think that's the number.)

I just checked and I'n using 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs on a Compaq CQ50 laptop.

It just did it again yesterday, but was fine on a restart, and so far today.  It's beginning to seem almost random...