Feisty Herd 4 Bricks iMac on shutdown
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-ports (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Ubuntu PowerPC Architecture Team |
Bug Description
Well, okay, not permanently. But to many Mac users, this would call for a trip to an Apple store, where they would surely be charged some crazy sum of money as the warranty is long over on this model.
Machine in question:
iMac G4 roundbase, 800MHz
768MiB system memory
60GiB HD
On shutdown, the system does not eject the CD as other systems will. No response from eject button on keyboard. Pressing enter results in a line of characters appearing on screen: ^[*, where * is a letter, but no response from the machine otherwise. Turning off the system required holding the power button for 5 seconds.
After doing this, the system would not power on again until I opened the enclosure and removed the backup battery. Once this was done, the system started normally.
Quite alarming for a live disc that isn't supposed to make any changes to one's system. I will attempt to repeat it soon, when I have the patience.
ProblemType: Bug
Date: Thu Feb 22 07:18:04 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-8-powerpc #3 Tue Feb 13 01:44:07 UTC 2007 ppc GNU/Linux
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20: | |
assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-powerpc |
status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
the CD not ejecting is true for all systems cf bug 84592,
Enter not working is also true for all Macs and some amd64, without the line of ^[* though, CTRL^J might reboot or halt the box.
Nedd for removing the backup battery is a new one and scary.