Linux Mint 12 hangs during restart attempt

[Raydeith]

Hi!

I have just received a new working computer, Dell latitude E5520, and have installed Linux Mint 12 on it. So far it's been quite painless and everything just worked until I tried to restart the OS. During restart it completes all the steps successfully until "restarting system" at that point it just hangs. The interesting part is that the shutdown command works perfectly and the output looks exactly the same all the way except that it doesn't try to restart the system. It seems to suggest that something is going wrong when it tries to send a signal for restart, there are no problems during a regular boot.

I've tried the solution suggested here http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/08/ ... -restarts/, using the flags "reboot=bios" and "reboot=acpi" in my grub config. No dice.

I am running a 64 bit Linux Mint 12 standard and the following is a output from inxi -Fc0 (Host name is removed due to personal reasons, standard english characters are used thought):


System: Host Kernel 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop Gnome Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Machine: System Dell (portable) product Latitude E5520 version 01
Mobo Dell model 03PH4G version A01 Bios Dell version A05 date 11/30/2011
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i7-2640M CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache 4096 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: (1) 2801.00 MHz (2) 2801.00 MHz (3) 2801.00 MHz (4) 2801.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
X.Org 1.10.4 drivers intel unloaded: vesa,fbdev Resolution 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel Sandybridge Mobile GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11
Audio: Card Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: 1.0.24
Network: Card-1 Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 driver iwlagn
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 10:0b:a9:f2:40:70
Card-2 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver tg3
IF: eth0 state: down speed: 65535 Mbps duplex: full mac: d0:67:e5:46:0d:b6
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (4.1% used) 1: /dev/sda ST9500423AS 500.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 450G used: 19G (5%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 8.48GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info: Processes 151 Uptime 37 min Memory 2883.8/7897.8MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.7

I have been looking around for a while but haven't found someone with any similar problem that had a clear solution, pardon if I have missed something obvious. If anyone has any ideas or even hunches I would appreciate any feedback possible.

Yours Faithfully,
Raydeith

[mikecrosoft]

Hello Raydeith. I think the kernel is hanging on boot, is quiter rare but that happens with some kernel versions; so my advice is to boot with a previous kernel version, unistall the problematic version and try with another one. Sorry for the short answer, but I must go out right now; let me know if you need any further information. Regards!.

[poorhatsoap]

Exact same issue, exact same model of Dell Laptop...

Has anyone solved this yet?

Edit: Issue happened with Linux Mint 12, have just installed Linux Mint 13 and the issue persists.