Hang on restart

[drewko]

When I restart Mint 8 it hangs. It says it is restarting but never does; then have to push the power button. Shutdown works fine; it is only Restart that hangs.

This is a single drive ASUS P5S800 machine, dual OS with WinXP. My research seems to indicate i should put a "reboot=b" command on the kernel line somewhere in the grub.conf file but I am a little confused whether this is applicable in Mint 8. So how do i fix this?

Drew

[remoulder]

Drew, sorry you're having a problem, but we're going to need a little more information about your system. Please read the link in the Forum rules bar at the top for the information needed. Also does it hang before restarting or afterwards.

[drewko]

Ok, thanks. Sorry, here is more info:

I am running Mint 8 main edition. According to the grub menu "linux 2.6.31-14-generic (/dev/sda5)".
Grub version is 1.97~beta4
This is a dual OS setup sharing a single hard drive with WinXP.

Here is the problem: I click on MENU QUIT RESTART which then proceeds to display the following line at the top of black screen, followed by a blinking cursor:

Linux Mint 8 Helena - Main Edition 1-P5S800 tty11-P5S800 login: [ 156.360473] Restarting system.

...or similar. Keyboard is completely unresponsive; have to give the power button a short push to restart, at which point everything proceeds normally to reboot.

After rebooting i ran lspci and lsusb which yielded following:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port
(virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL
Media IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30
[CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter


lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


There are no problems starting or shutting down; only Restart hangs as described above. I see that other people have had same Restart hang problem in the past with this particular motherboard/BIOS and solved it by adding "reboot=b" to the kernel line in grub.conf. I don't know how to do that in Mint 8.

Drew

[remoulder]

Drew, thanks for the info. Before we look at kernel mode parameters, can you try updating your xorg and kernel to the latest. In mintupdate go to Edit | Preferences and place a check under the visible column against levels 4 & 5, close Preferences and click Refresh on the toolbar. You should find several updates relating to xorg and linux kernel 2.6.31.20, I suggest you just select them all unless there's anything listed you feel particularly unsure of, then click Apply. When complete shutdown and restart rather than reboot to ensure a clean shutdown. See http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ty#p239734 for more information.

Once you reboot into the new kernel, which should be the default assuming everything worked ok, try the reboot option again.