Logout causes system freeze

Baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Mar 11 04:04:41 UTC 2005




On 11/3/05 3:40 am, "Luke Yelavich" <themuso at themuso.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:51:56PM EST, Baza wrote:
>> After fixing my Hoary install from the preview iso logout freezes my system,
>> I have to hit the power switch to turn off.
>> 
>> Anyone know how to sort this?
> 
> Do you have any external drives connected via USB or firewire?
> 
> I had a similar problem recently when I had an external USB hard disk
> enclosure mounted. Doesn't seem to happen any more though.

No, it seems to have fixed itself when I did an apt-get
upgrade/dist-upgrade. My workaround, if anyone else has this was to open a
bash session and do sudo shutdown -h now. Bit of a dirty hack, but saved the
stress of just hitting the, 'off' switch.

Baza






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