Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze
I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at the
end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine
frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine
continues as far as the point where the font size changes. At that
point the screen goes blank, and the boot stops.
I then have to shut down the machine by holding down the start button
for the required four seconds, and start the boot again for as many
times as necessary to achieve a complete boot. It takes on average 3.5
such restarts each time I start the machine for a boot to be finally
successful.
Furthermore, ever since I converted this machine on 2013-02-18 Monday to
dependency based booting, the shutdown process no longer is completed.
It goes to run level 0, closes a number of processes, returns the line :
“INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel” and then stops
completely. To complete the shutdown it is necessary to hold down the
“start” button for the requisite four seconds.
I would be grateful for any information as the why these two phenomena
occur and how to return to a normal boot and shutdown.
Regards, Ken Heard, Toronto, Canada, and Banglamung, Thailand.
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