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[Atomoton]

I just got my EEE yesterday and spent all of 5 minutes on the Xandros system before rushing off to change it.
After a long and intimidating install process involving a few different distros (MINT, UBUNTU, and eeeXUBUNTU) i finally got eeeXubuntu to work with no problems, and am enjoying it now. I've only altered a few settings, nothing that should affect shutdown as far as I know, but hey...

The issue: It started only after installing the new OS (of this I'm about 90% sure). The problem is when I select shutdown, it shuts down fine, but the little green light with the lightbulb symbol is still on, and the fan is still running. I can still hold down the power button for a few seconds to turn it off fully, otherwise it just sits there. So my questions are is it safe to shut it down like that, and how can I stop it from doing this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[aplus01]

mine does the same thing. i just do a hard reset and everything is fine, but i too would like a fix for this.

[ShaqARif]

On Ubuntu/Xubuntu, the following works for me:

Edit the file /etc/default/halt

add the following line right at the end:

rmmod snd-hda-intel

don't know if this will work for eeeXubuntu, but it's worth a go.

I got this fix from someone else on this forum.

[jakub]

Cool, worked for me as described. Awesome, thanks!

[reventlov]

This worked for me, too. Thanks for passing along the info, ShaqARif.

[wamser_e]

Worked like a champ. Thanks Shaq!

[ShaqARif]

Glad to be of service!

Seems this question comes up quite frequently, so I've added it to the FAQ.

[aplus01]

ditto. thanks!

[ch0mik]

Hi, it works ;) with Debian Lenny installed on SDHC

(...)
/etc/default/halt
rmmod snd-hda-intel
(...)

[Aztec]

The same problem started for me when I went from eeeXubuntu R2 to R3. I'll try this fix tonight. What exactly does it do?

[Atomoton]

Ah thanks a lot. Might also be intereting to note that this only happens whe you shut down while connected to a network.

[njp]

Worked for me too - thanks.

P.S. Where is the FAQ? I didn't find it on the Wiki pages...

Edited by njp, 11 January 2008 - 09:37 AM.

[clovis_ll]

didn't work for me. i can edit it but i can't seem to save it.. any ideas how you guys figured it out?

[Kartikay]

You need to edit the file as root to save it. Try this

sudo mousepad /etc/default/halt

[colasanti]

Working with ubuntu I found that this solution stopped the sound card from being recognized. However I found that in correcting a problem with USB memory recognition :
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Comment out this line with a #:

/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9600 user, noauto, exec 0 0

did solve this problem as well.
This Kind of makes sense as it would still be looking fro the attached CD rom to power.
Any way lucky accident on my part that may help others


All the best

[colasanti]

My apologies for double posting but on rereading my above comment I realized that it was not as clear as I wanted.
The USB fix also fixed the power shut down not the sound card problem this was souled bu NOT altering the halt file

[jojmoj]

works like a absolute beeeauty!!! thanks a lot... this was starting to get on my proverbials...

mega thnx here :D

[leon5139]

hi guys. i am new to this forum and to linux. I installed eee ubuntu and get the green light staying on after "shutdown". i am new to using the terminal function and have tried following your instructions but have had no success. When i use sudo mouse i get an improper function message. I have been having problems getting the grasp of editing these functions and saving them
any help would be gratly appreciated

[speedx]

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hi guys. i am new to this forum and to linux. I installed eee ubuntu and get the green light staying on after "shutdown". i am new to using the terminal function and have tried following your instructions but have had no success. When i use sudo mouse i get an improper function message. I have been having problems getting the grasp of editing these functions and saving them
any help would be gratly appreciated

i think its case sensitive! some1 can correct me if i am wrong!

[triblinator]

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hi guys. i am new to this forum and to linux. I installed eee ubuntu and get the green light staying on after "shutdown". i am new to using the terminal function and have tried following your instructions but have had no success. When i use sudo mouse i get an improper function message. I have been having problems getting the grasp of editing these functions and saving them
any help would be gratly appreciated

Are you actually typing mouse, or is that an abbreviation? You need to open the file in a text editor with root privelage, so type "sudo mousepad /etc/default/halt" then the location of the file - not just sudo mouse. Hopefully your problem is as simple as that.

Edited by triblinator, 23 August 2008 - 04:35 AM.