System hangs at Shutting down ASLA on Shutdown/Restart

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This is my first bug report, so please forgive me if I don't do it to standards. I've seen two other similar bug reports but both involved sound problems as well. My sound is working fine.

When I Shutdown or Restart I see the closing splash screen. The progress bar hangs just above half. I then get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. After some time, I get the following:

* Stopping atieventsd [OK]
Stopping libchipcard daemon: chipcardd4.
* Saving the system clock
* Stopping firewall: ufw ... [OK]
* Shutting down ASLA ...

This is where it hangs up. If I power off the machine and reboot, everything works fine until the next time I Shutdown/Restart.

System Info:

Ubuntu release 8.10 (intrepid)
Kernel Linux 2.6.27-7-generic
GNOME 2.24.1
Dell 530S with an Intel Pentium Dual-Core CPU E2160 @ 1.8 GHz
ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO running ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver
2 gb RAM

This is a dual boot machine with XP Pro sp3.

I am a complete noob to Linux (<48 hrs.), but am proficient with Windows. If you need more information, please tell me what to do and how to do it. I'll be happy to comply. Thank you in advance for your efforts.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it without more information.

Please include the information requested at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSystemCrash to help to find the cause of this problem. Thanks in advance!

[[e-mail] (sempermollis)]

Thank you for your reply, Teej.

I went to the above link as you requested. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do. I couldn't replicate the problem from a text console. The /var/log/kern.log has nothing recent in it. I don't have another computer I can remote debug from.

Can you be a little more specific as to what type of information you need and how to capture it?

Thanks a bunch!

[[e-mail] (sempermollis)]

I found a work around in Bug #274995.

By inserting "ifconfig eth0 down" at the beginning of the stop) section of /etc/init.d/alsa-utils file the problem has been resolved.

How should I proceed from here?

Please advise.

Thank you.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

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 274995, 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 provide. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
Thanks again!