reboot issued as root in a terminal window hangs

[cllee 李嘉陵]

The system does not come to a halt. The screen turns black with an underscore at the top left, but stays like that.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 16 00:46:15 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: yelp 2.28.0+webkit-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic-pae
SourcePackage: yelp
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic-pae i686

[Monkey (monkey-libre)]

I did:
sudo shutdown -r now
But I didn´t have any problem. Please You should say the command. Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

[cllee 李嘉陵 (lchialing)]

I used "sudo su -", typed in my password, and "reboot" in a terminal window..

--- On Sat, 1/16/10, Monkey <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Monkey <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 508279] Re: reboot issued as root in a terminal window hangs
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 6:55 AM

I did:
sudo shutdown -r now
But I didn´t have any problem. Please You should say the command. Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

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reboot issued as root in a terminal window hangs
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Bug description:
The system does not come to a halt. The screen turns black with an underscore at the top left, but stays like that.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 16 00:46:15 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: yelp 2.28.0+webkit-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic-pae
SourcePackage: yelp
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic-pae i686

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi cllee,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 508279

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[cllee 李嘉陵 (lchialing)]

I am now using the beta release version of the software and it appears to go away. But from time to time, reboot does not work still, and I have to hold on to the power button to force a shutdown. However, it is kind of hard to repeat it though.

So, happy for this to be closed.