Comment 22 for bug 119308

I'm having this issue on my VIA EPIA SP 13000.

When I disable the boot splash screen I'm faced with this:

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 System is shutting down, please wait...
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NetworkManager: <WARN> mn_signal_handler(): caught signal 15,
shutting down normally.

NetworkManager: <info> Caught termination signal

NetworkManager: <debug> [1193573771.092816] nm_print_open_socks()
Open sockets List:

NetworkManager: <debug> [1193573771.092816] nm_print_open_socks()
Open sockets Done.

NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_hal_deinit(): libhal shutdown failed -
Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
blocked the reply, the reply timeout experied, or the network
connection as broken.

[ 226.137045] System halted.

"sudo dmidecode > dmidecode.txt" returns dmidecode.txt with just this;

# dmidecode 2.9
# No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry.

thomas@Mini-Me:~$ uname -a
Linux Mini-Me 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but upon boot I see a message saying something like; "no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI"