does not terminate at computer shutdown

[wub]

Binary package hint: plymouth

This report was initiated as an automated process around the time I was running the hardware test suite.

I am not aware of having asked for a shutdown, and when I shutdown a few hours ago (immediately after upgrading from alpha-3 to the beta current as of 3/20/10), shutdown appeared to be normal. I even saw the new color scheme at shutdown.

On the other hand, this Fujitsu Lifebook has a history of not shutting down properly. I first installed Ubuntu at 7.10 on this machine, and shutdown was normal. I upgraded to 8.04 LTS and stayed there until last week. Under 8.04 the system has >NEVER< shutdown normally.

I am looking forward to midnight tonight, to see what does or does not happen to happen :)

In response to a request to shutdown it >appears< to shutdown, going completely cold and still. But unless I remove the battery or press and hold the power button for approx 20 seconds (during which time the fan and LEDs come on, then go off) it will reboot at midnight. I tried and failed to find a BIOS setting for automatically turning on at a known time. This behavior has never appeared under Windows XP - in fact, until I learned the trick of holding the power button down, I routinely used my dual-boot capability to shutdown from XP to ensure the system would not wake up and drain my battery dry (again...) in my backpack.

On a possibly related note - the only reason I allowed XP to continue living on my harddrive is that from time to time (ALWAYS after a full battery drain) my touchpad becomes non-responsive. The only certain cure I am aware of is to reboot from Windows.
Dunno why.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 20 14:05:57 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /sbin/plymouthd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
Lsusb:
 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: FUJITSU N3430
OmitPids: 1919 949
Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-17
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-16-generic root=UUID=e75f44a9-4629-4ef2-b7c0-542a0532af97 ro quiet splash
ProcCmdline: /sbin/plymouthd --mode=shutdown
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcFB:
 0 inteldrmfb
 1 VGA16 VGA
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: plymouth
Title: does not terminate at computer shutdown
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 06/08/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU/INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: 1.03
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: TRUFF01
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: AJ70N1E30F000010
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSU/INSYDE:bvr1.03:bd06/08/2006:svnFUJITSU:pnN3430:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnTRUFF01:rvr:cvnAJ70N1E30F000010:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: N3430
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU