weird issue

[Robert Charbonneau]

I've also experienced an issue like this, though it's sporadic; in my case
I can reboot and logout, but when I try to shutdown the PC it just reboots.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:56 PM Charlie <info at soulgrave.com> wrote:

> I've also ran the onboard diagnostics with all tests coming back good so
> no hardware issues from what the BIOS/onboard diagnostics say. I'm about to
> put in a new PCI wireless card (I recently put a new Gigabit ethernet card
> in it because the onboard ethernet port stopped working. May have just
> gotten loose) in it in a few days and I need to purchase more RAM since
> oddly enough it came with only 4 GBs of DDR3. The processor's a quadcore
> Xeon. And I'm going to look into a new video card to get off the onboard
> chipset. And put a SSD in it eventually since the mechanical one's sloooow
> but damn, it's a whopping terabyte though.
>
> Charlie Luna
>
> ubuntu-california.org
>
> > On Feb 18, 2019, at 20:41, Charlie <info at soulgrave.com> wrote:
> >
> > I use the latte dock with the widget for logout/restart. I've got the
> setting to not confirm anything, just to do it.
> >
> > Going through the main menu using the leave button with the default
> selection of end current session checked: suspend to RAM works ok. Reboot
> hangs at the Kubuntu splash screen and at this point I've got to force it
> into shutdown by pressing and holding the power button for nine seconds.
> upon reboot, all systems go. No errors through bootup sequence. Choosing
> shutdown powers down normally without issue. No errors during reboot.
> >
> > changing the option back to confirm logout:
> >
> > sitting at the option screen with the timer for suspend, reboot, shut
> down. I let the timer go to zero with restart as the default option here.
> Continues to hang at the Kubuntu splash screen like it's waiting at the
> door to step out and come back in. Forcing shutdown by power button. All
> other options at this screen work normally.
> >
> > Power up once again.
> >
> > Trying konsole commands:
> >
> > sudo shutdown -r now: executed and hangs at splash screen again.
> >
> > sudo shutdown -h now: executed and powers down successfully.
> >
> > Seems like the issue is just the restart part. One thing to mention:
> after installation and upon getting the remove installation media and press
> enter window, I remove said media and press enter only for it to hang
> still.
> >
> > I can live with it but it's annoying not being able to restart at
> anytime.
> >
> > Makes me wonder what's wrong with my system. It works fantastic
> otherwise. At the end of each installation, it kills power to the usb ports
> and it doesn't detect me pressing enter on both the wired and wireless
> keyboards. That sucks.
> >
> > Charlie Luna
> >
> > ubuntu-california.org
> >
> >>> On Feb 18, 2019, at 19:54, Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 19/02/2019 04.00, Charlie wrote:
> >>> My Dell Precision T1600 desktop computer doesn't want to restart no
> matter how many times I try it. It'll boot up and shut down but no restart.
> Hmmm..what gives?
> >>> Charlie Luna
> >>> ubuntu-california.org
> >> How do you invoke the 'restart' command? - In case it is from the GUI,
> make sure that System Settings --> Startup and Shutdown --> Desktop Session
> --> Default Leave Option is set op 'Logout' and then try to just logout and
> see what happens. It should give you four options: suspend, reboot,
> shutdown and logout. Do they work properly?
> >>
> >> Also, you could try to restart from the terminal (konsole in
> kubuntunese):
> >>
> >> sudo shutdown -r now
> >> and
> >> sudo shutdown -h now
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> Kaj Haulrich.
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