Jaunty Boot-up Problem

[Karl F. Larsen]

Graham Todd wrote:
> I have a similar problem to those with a shutdown problem, although my
> install was from a disk burnt on my home machine from the Desktop .iso
> file.  A short time afterwards, here in the UK, my regular DVD with
> "Linux Format" magazine arrived and I reinstalled from that disk - with
> the same result.  So I checked the file against the HASH after
> downloading again, and then tried a clean install, which didn't work.
> Finally, I tried a clean install of Ubuntu 8.10 and updated it, with
> the same results.
>
> By now, I feared that it was a hardware problem (my equipment is
> detailed at the end), so I Googled around to find a solution - other
> than buying a new desktop PC - and found that many users had
> experienced the same shutdown problems, but I wonder if anyone has
> experience the same start-up problem as me. 
>
> The problem I am having is that Ubuntu doesn't seem to shutdown the
> system properly, even though the shutdown command has been given and
> confirmed, through the gui.  When it reboots, it gives an error message
> to the effect that Jaunty did not shutdown cleanly and it would have to
> check the drive, which it does - interminably.  Suddenly the screen is
> full of text with the instruction to Press Ctrl+D if you want to
> continue the boot process.  If I press Ctrl+D, all continues fine -
> until the next startup.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there an easy answer to my problem?
> Should I log a bug report?
>
> If anybody knows how to correct this behaviour, please let me know!
>
> [Using a home built PC with a Trendsonic case and an Asus motherboard,
> withan Intel Pentium D processor running at 3.00 Ghz. No graphics card,
> sound card, or separate internet card: all through motherboard. with a
> 150 GiG hard drive formatted into three partitions (/,/home,swap)]
>
>
>   
    First there are many Ubuntu Jaunty users who have no problem like 
yours and I am one of those. For some reason the turn-off button 
disappeared from mine and I had to put on another one.

    Your problem does sound like a computer hardware failure but no idea 
what it is. Could be your RAM is not right, and tell us how much RAM you 
have. You can be sure that Jaunty is working well for most users.

Karl


-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7