Re: Older Toshiba won't restart only halt
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:55:13 -0500, Stephen Fishpaste wrote:
> I've had this issue for some time with this laptop through the various
> incarnations of Debian. This is a Toshiba Satellite 1800 circa 2004 with
> maxed out ram 512 Mb and it runs just fine with LXDE on it. Presently
> I'm running Squeeze, with proposed Sid updates.
Already reported... but no clear solution:
Toshiba Satellite 1800 freezes on restart (that is when Restarting System
now appears)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479094
> I've never been able to 'restart' the damn thing. halt -p works fine but
> I always have to shutdown and then manually start up again. A pain in
> the arse for kernel upgrades. 8>D
>
> Any suggestions as to what I need to do to fix this? Don't have this
> problem with other laptops of the same era that I've installed Debian on
> either.
How are you calling the restart, manually by "shutdown -r now" or by
using LXDE tools? Anything at the logs?
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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