after standby next boot hangs

[StefanS42376868]

Binary package hint: gconf-editor

If I click the button "standby" (German: "Ruhezustand") in the shutdown dialog of Ubuntu 8.04, I will get a dark screen and after a few seconds two error messages:
[100955046] i8042: aux 00:0d activation failed
[100955060] i8042: kbd 00:0d activation failed

The numbers in [] have some random character and are not reproducible.

The system does switch off power then (not just standby). But even on the next start (hardware "Power On"), the boot process will fail:
The Ubuntu logo screen with the orange bar freezes in the first phase, while there is not yet a "progress" bar but only a bar moving from left to right and back...
Only after a hardware reset, Ubuntu will start again, then everything runs normally again.
This behaviour is perfectly reproducible.

Of course this might be a problem with my "old" (4 years) main board (MSI-K7N2G),
therefore - as a preliminary solution - I would like to remove the standby button from the shutdown menu, but how can I do this? The gconf-editor seems not to have this option any more (I found in a forum that Ubuntu 7.10 had: apps/gnome-power-manager/can_hibernate).

[StefanS42376868 (stefans42376868)]

correction: the error messages are:
[100955046] i8042: aux 00:0d activation failed
[100955060] i8042: kbd 00:0e activation failed

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

not a gconf-editor bug.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

This has been improved in later versions of Ubuntu, so it would be nice if you can test Ubuntu 9.04 (or 9.10 Beta) to if you still have this issue.