Feisty will not shutdown, reboots instead

Carl Drud carl.drud at myrealbox.com
Sat Jun 2 13:53:55 UTC 2007


James Takac <p3nndrag0n at gmail.com> writes:

> By chance you're not using a laptop? 

No, it's a desktop.

> I've had that occassionally with mine and the only way I could power
> it down was to pull the power cord and put it back. Then it behaved as
> expected. 

Well, as I wrote at first I thought I had hit the wrong button, so when
it had rebooted I pressed the shutdown button, and it shut down OK.

A couple of days ago, it rebooted 3 times before finally shutting down.

> Puzzled the hell outta me when it first happened. Still don't know why
> it happens, but I know how to remedy it when it does happen here

It's annoying when it happens ;-)

-- 
Carl





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