Laptop restarts instead of shutting down when on ac power

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#1

I just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite M305D - S4831. My problem is that when I go to shutdown my laptop it will restart but will only do this when plugged in. If I am on batter power it will shutdown fine. I had the same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 10 and have no resolution yet.

Any help for a linux newbie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ryan

#2

On 01/06/2011 05:06 PM, castletonia wrote:
>
> I just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite M305D - S4831.
> My problem is that when I go to shutdown my laptop it will restart but
> will only do this when plugged in. If I am on batter power it will
> shutdown fine. I had the same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 10 and
> have no resolution yet.
>
> Any help for a linux newbie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Complain to Toshiba about their brain-dead BIOS. Linux is telling it to shut
down, but it is not doing it.

These kind of ACPI errors are very common. You will likely have to live with it.
Just hit the power off when GRUB comes up.

#3

I just installed openSUSE 11.3 on my Toshiba Satellite M305D - S4831. My problem is that when I go to shutdown my laptop it will restart but will only do this when plugged in. If I am on batter power it will shutdown fine. I had the same problem with Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 10 and have no resolution yet.

Any help for a linux newbie would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ryan
Does it make any difference if the Laptop is plugged into power or working on Batteries? Have you tried a Terminal shutdown command? Try this, when you have everything closed and ready to go down.

sudo /sbin/shutdown -P

This should ask for your password and then shutdown. Give it a try. We could make a small batch file from it if this works.

Thank You,

#4

It will shutdown fine when I am on battery power. I am in the process of replacing windows permanently and as such have been distro hopping. Ubuntu 10.10, Mint 10, openSUSE 11.3 and Netrunner 2 all have this shutdown issue. The only distro that has shutdown for me on ac power is Zorin-OS 4 core.

Starting to think this is just how my laptop will be and I will have to just live with it. I will try that in terminal in the morning and see what happens.

Thanks for the info.

#5

So what kernel version is Zorin-OS 4 core using? You know it is possible to update the kernel to 2.6.35, 36 or 37 in openSUSE 11.3.

Thank You,