System hangs with black screen on restart with Gutsy Beta

[Jonathon James]

I recently upgraded to Gutsy Beta from Feisty. The only problem I have is that my system now hangs sometimes when I try to restart it. I haven't noticed this behaviour so far with shutdowns, only restarts. Once I press restart, the screen simply goes to black, without any indication of the splash screen or other activity, and stays there until I hold the power button to shut off the computer manually.

My computer is a Dell Inspiron 700m with the following specs:
Intel Pentium M Processor 1.70GHz
1GB memory
Intel 85x graphics card
...I don't know what else you will need...

Also, please bear with me, as I am not an expert Linux user -- but not entirely helpless either.

[unggnu (unggnu)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
duplicate of bug #127101, so it is being marked as such. Please look at
the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you
can add, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Feel free to
continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Yahya (jahja69)]

My submission ID: 525ea88eb7d66d89c67bc1bd13e71a3b

Same problem on logout and restart here on an hp pavilion ze4953ea

doesn't happen always...not sure yet, but I think it happens at the end of a session in which sudo has been envoked

[Yahya (jahja69)]

The problem goes away when I connect a second monitor!

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

855GM hardware is known to hit problems which aren't yet cured in the updates.

The latest un-released patches I've been working on to cure the crash is in this deb:
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/ubuntu/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.1.1-0ubuntu10~pcjc2_i386.deb

However there are still corruptions to the display seen after resume with compositing enabled.

The addind a second monitor fix sounds to me like like you need the above package.

[Jonathon James (isamaranga)]

I want to confirm that this unreleased patch seems to have resolved this
issue for my system.

On 10/20/07, Peter Clifton <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 127101 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127101
>
> 855GM hardware is known to hit problems which aren't yet cured in the
> updates.
>
> The latest un-released patches I've been working on to cure the crash is
> in this deb:
>
> http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~pcjc2/ubuntu/xserver-xorg-video-intel_2.1.1-0ubuntu10~pcjc2_i386.deb
>
> However there are still corruptions to the display seen after resume
> with compositing enabled.
>
> The addind a second monitor fix sounds to me like like you need the
> above package.
>
> --
> System hangs with black screen on restart with Gutsy Beta
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152139
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[Yahya (jahja69)]

Thanks Peter, that patch seems to have solved the problem on my machine