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I'm also encountering this sometimes on my desktop with U 10.04. But if I boot up and then immediately do a suspend without starting any apps such as Firefox, etc. the system suspends just fine and...

I also had this problem. From the Terminal, enter the command 'sudo halt'. This should shutdown the system. In my case, after restarting, this also fixed the problem that other shutdown methods...

I have the same problem and I did a clean install of U 10.04 rather than an upgrade but see the same shutdown/restart behavior you describe.

I'll try and find your other thread. U 10.04 won't shutdown for me. Just goes to the login screen.

FIXMBR solves the problem. Thanks to everyone for illustrating the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of community support. Just one more reason linux has a sub 1% user base. Xubuntu is readily...

I turned on screen compositing in xubuntu 9.1 and that scrambled the screen and now I can't read the screen. How do I undo that change? If I alt-ctr-F2 that goes to the command line. Then restartx...

Here is one frequently referred-to bit of documentation about how cool grub2 is because you can specify a 'bios boot partition' (NOT). http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition One problem. The key...

Thank you for the Welcome note. I hope I am wrong about the future of desktop Linux. I would love to see a vastly increased user base but remain extremely concerned. But best to all.

Grub2 has virtually guaranteed that Linux will NEVER increase it's user base past the fraction of 1% it currently enjoys. Grub2 successfully breaks systems that were working perfectly and no easy...