[NTLUG:Discuss] somewhat odd boot behavior

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:35:28PM -0600, Fred James wrote:
> Gigbyte(tm) S-Series G41M-ES2L motherboard
> Intel Dual-Core E6600 LGA775 cpu
> ATX-1072BP case from Frys (380W power supply)
> OS: Mandriva 2008.0
> 
> Has been running since December 2010 ... but boot/reboot has always
> been a bit odd [...]
> On this machine, both Restart and Shutdown preform a restart of X,
> at which point one may either press the restart or the power button,
> on the front of the computer.

Could be the kernel and/or BIOS.  I had the same issue with my
HP Pavilion Elite computer and Kubuntu 11.04 -- "shutdown" would
always end up rebooting the system back into X.  In my case I
decided it had something to do with weird ACPI settings and the
BIOS, and never found a combination that works.

However, installing Kubuntu 11.10 fixed the problem, such that
shutdown properly powers off the machine when finished.  So I think
a later kernel must have fixed whatever problem the earlier kernel
exposed.

Anyway, that's my $0.02; hope it helps.  You might try installing
a newer version of Linux or Mandriva (perhaps in a separate partition)
just to see if that resolves the problem for you.

Pm