Bug#617453: restarting doesn't always work on Dell Latitude E6400

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Hi,

On 2012-07-04 20:55:56 +0200, Rik Theys wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > When I want to restart (reboot) my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, the
> > machine sometimes remain on without restarting. The last message
> > on the console is: "Restarting system."
> 
> Can you try adding the following parameter to your kernel boot line?
> Add it to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX parameter in /etc/default/grub and
> run update-grub.
> 
> reboot=pci

I don't have a /etc/default/grub on this machine. It seems to be
available with grub-pc, but here I have grub-legacy.

Perhaps I should use

defoptions=quiet reboot=pci

After a search on Google, I've found

http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/08/04/howto-fix-linux-hangfreeze-during-reboots-and-restarts/

where a comment says:

"Had issues with Dell latitude E6420 had to add reboot=pci to fix the issue"

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