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  1. Bug #567580
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 567580

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Stefano Tullii (barbablues) wrote : Re: ubuntu 10.04 hangs on shutdown splash

A friend of mine with an Acer Aspire 1680 running Ubuntu 10.4 came to me telling shutdown didn't work for him, so i found this thread while trying to help. I updated to the latest kernel (this happened on 9/18/2010 and an update to the kernel had been released a few hours before) but it didn't help. Then i had and idea: just getting rid of the splash screen, i.e. changing

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

in /etc/default/grub

and running:

sudo update-grub

and this worked!

My friend now thinks seeing kernel startup/shutdown messages is much nicer than a purple screen with blinking dots...