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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 02:43:01PM -0000, Tipi Koivisto wrote:
> On the other hand when I do "shutdown 0" as root the last message in
> standard output is "*Will now halt..." and then comes Mr. Freeze. I can
> even hear the hardrive shutting down but then it just freezes.

> Therefore I think the problem is in somewhere between Halt and
hardware.

That's a different issue.  "halt" does not guarantee that the system is
powered off; to get this you need to use the 'poweroff' command or 'shutdown
-P'.

If you call 'shutdown -P' and the system still does not power off, that's a
(separate) bug.  But not powering off in response to 'shutdown'/'halt' is
allowed behavior.  I'm not sure *why* the behavior changed, and maybe we
should revert it for future releases, but for now please use the explicit
command.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882817

Title:
  shutdown screen stuck after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10

Status in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After the update from 11.04 to 11.10: when I shut down the pc sometimes it goes back to the login screen and then I have to do shutdown there which works well then.
  Sometimes the pc shuts down but ends with the ubuntu splash screen and gets stuck there.
  The issue may be driver related: I use the AMD/ATI FGLRX graphics driver.
  I have a second pc where I also did the update to 11.10 and there I have no problem at all but I don't use the above driver but the NVIDIA graphics driver. 
  Both pc's have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit.

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