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

[Rik Theys <rik.theys@gmail.com>]

Hi,

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

We need(ed) to add this parameter to some of our recent Dell desktops
to make them reboot.

Let us know if this helps, so it can be made the default for this laptop type.

Regards,

Rik