Problem shutting down laptop...

[Michael Cronenworth]

Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> I did the preupgrade yesterday on three machines without issue.
> 
> On my laptop, though, I'm having a problem with shutting the laptop down
> now. It's a Lenovo W510+ and, during the shutdown process, when it
> switches to text I see an error (don't remember the exact text offhand)
> about shutdown having a problem. Then the laptop just stops and the
> CapsLock light starts blinking. At this point I have to power down the
> old Irish way by holding the power button.
> 
> Anybody else hitting this?

No, but it sounds like a kernel panic.

You should try hitting the escape key during shut down or boot with
"norhgb" (maybe even add "nomodeset") to stop plymouth from hiding any
kernel output.