[Wolves] problems booting up and shutting down

[Mo Awkati]

     On Wednesday, 24 December 2014, 12:51, Chris Ellis <chris at intrbiz.com> wrote:
   

 Hi Mo

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Mo Awkati <mawkati at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello folk, sorry I have not deserted you, I'm still here!
>
> I need some help if possible. I bought my wife a tablet PC Asus X553M. It
> came with windows on it. She hated
> the windows os and asked me to install Linux on it. My first choice for her
> was Linux MInt. I installed it but had trouble shutting down and booting up.
> So I wiped it off and replaced it with Ubuntu 14.04. Everything seems OK
> except the booting up and shutting down. It sometimes freezes on booting up,
> and always doesn't shut down fully, I have to hold the power button on until
> it shuts down. I also started getting a message saying there is "system
> programme error" but I couldn't find what it is, so I switched the
> notification off for now.

In what way does it freeze, how long have you waited?  Can you SSH into it
whilst it is frozen?  Do you see a kernel panic printed to the screen?

>
> I have copied the system log file and attached here. Would anyone be able to
> look at it and / or tell me what the problems might be?

That is only the X log file, it just show a normal X start up.  You'll
need to look
at dmesg an syslog for any info.

>
> I have spent a couple of days searching the internet for a solution, many
> included tweaking the Grub file; I tried them but none worked :(

What did you tweak and why?

>
> I think it is a hardware issue but not sure what cause everything is working
> as it should!

It looks to be a typical Intel based ultrabook.

>
> Thank you for any help or suggestion or solutions

As Kevan mentioned you've tried to closely related, debian based distros.

Given openSUSE 13.2 a try, might have a newer kernel, which might improve
things.


Hi
I used a live DVD to boot up of Fedora but that froze and couldn't go any further.
I tweaked the etc\default\grub to 
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off"
but that didn't work.
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 
I will give OpenSuse a go

   
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