shutdown hang in 8.10

[Ewan the moomintroll]

No luck, my file looks different to described there.
I realize I'm not being very detailed on the problem and if there's anything I can do that might help find the source of the problem, I'd be happy to.
Sorry for dragging this forum on for so long, but it is important i get this fixed.

[purplepaint]

I'm having the problem with the message "acpid : exiting" being displayed when I shut down (it switches of eventually if I just leave it). Is the fix that's been posted intended to fix this problem or just the ALSA one?

[elctb]

Thanks.

Worked fine for me.
Straight link for lazy people: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...5/comments/181

This has really been heavily discussed…

This fix worked for me.

[purplepaint]

I'm having the ALSA problem now, and the fix that was posted didn't seem to help (I assume I followed the instructions correctly - my "alsa-utils" file looks like this http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9167/alsafixxj2.png). Is this related to the fact that I now can't get sound?

EDIT: I was able to fix the sound issue easily by turning up "master" in Alsamixer. I don't know if it'll stick after I reboot though.

[Ewan the moomintroll]

Can't do that fix, I get this in said file:

[Ubuntist]

Did some poking around and this has been heavily discussed as a bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/274995

Scroll down to a comment by Marcos posted on 2008-11-08 which shows the solution. Hope this works for ya'all

This mostly works for me. Ubuntu will now shut down, but during shutdown I get the message "No VFN is running".

Commenting out

ifconfig wlan0 down

in the fix has no effect: I still get shutdown and the "No VFN" message still appears.

If I comment out the other line in the fix,

ifconfig eth0 down

then shutdown hangs as before.

Any ideas on how to get rid of the "No VFN" message?

[Ewan the moomintroll]

When I start up I get a very brief message about acpi force off, bios sometingorother.

[purplepaint]

Am I doing something wrong with my alsa-utils file?

I'm using a laptop, so having it take forever to shut down can be inconvenient when I have to take it somewhere and the battery's low.

[J@n]

Thanks.

Worked fine for me.
Straight link for lazy people: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...5/comments/181

This has really been heavily discussed…

Worked for me

Happily shutting down in no-time now!

What should I do without this excellent forum

[mike_judd]

Renaming...
/etc/rc0.d/S35networking to /etc/rc0.d/K35networking
...(for halting) and...
/etc/rc6.d/S35networking to /etc/rc6.d/K35networking
...(for rebooting) did the trick for me.

Looks like S35networking was added to /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d in 8.10 as it didn't exist in 8.04.
As I'm pretty sure networking should be getting killed off rather than starting up when going to run level 0 or 6, I'm guessing it was either a mistake or an act of sabotage.