<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7615"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7614"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7611"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7610"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7609"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7613"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7612"> On Wednesday, 24 December 2014, 12:51, Chris Ellis <chris@intrbiz.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_7608">Hi Mo<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Mo Awkati <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mawkati@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:mawkati@yahoo.co.uk">mawkati@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> Hello folk, sorry I have not deserted you, I'm still here!<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I need some help if possible. I bought my wife a tablet PC Asus X553M. It<br clear="none">> came with windows on it. She hated<br clear="none">> the windows os and asked me to install Linux on it. My first choice for her<br clear="none">> was Linux MInt. I installed it but had trouble shutting down and booting up.<br clear="none">> So I wiped it off and replaced it with Ubuntu 14.04. Everything seems OK<br clear="none">> except the booting up and shutting down. It sometimes freezes on booting up,<br clear="none">> and always doesn't shut down fully, I have to hold the power button on until<br clear="none">> it shuts down. I also started getting a message saying there is "system<br clear="none">> programme error" but I couldn't find what it is, so I switched the<br clear="none">> notification off for now.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In what way does it freeze, how long have you waited? Can you SSH into it<br clear="none">whilst it is frozen? Do you see a kernel panic printed to the screen?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I have copied the system log file and attached here. Would anyone be able to<br clear="none">> look at it and / or tell me what the problems might be?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That is only the X log file, it just show a normal X start up. You'll<br clear="none">need to look<br clear="none">at dmesg an syslog for any info.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I have spent a couple of days searching the internet for a solution, many<br clear="none">> included tweaking the Grub file; I tried them but none worked :(<br clear="none"><br clear="none">What did you tweak and why?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I think it is a hardware issue but not sure what cause everything is working<br clear="none">> as it should!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It looks to be a typical Intel based ultrabook.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thank you for any help or suggestion or solutions<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As Kevan mentioned you've tried to closely related, debian based distros.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Given openSUSE 13.2 a try, might have a newer kernel, which might improve<div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330"><br clear="none">things.<br clear="none"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr">Hi</div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr">I used a live DVD to boot up of Fedora but that froze and couldn't go any further.</div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr">I tweaked the etc\default\grub to </div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);" class=""><br></span></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1419427063627_9014">GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off"</span></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr">but that didn't work.</div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr">The waiting when not booting properly or not shutting down time is indefinite just hangs there. When I get to be able to see the option to boot up in Recovery mode it sometimes hangs at the point, I think, udev 209, but I get the report from syslog </div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr">I will give OpenSuse a go</div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="yqt4661305076" id="yqtfd38330" dir="ltr"><br></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>