Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

[UNCNDL1]

Mobus, glad you're still hanging in here. I'm not sure really when the last time I used "re-start" since switching completely to Linux. Take care

[SHEEPMAN!]

Mobey,
I read stuff for three hours last night....found one lead but it fizzled. Stay with us.

[Mobus]

User menu definitions in Cinnamon are stored in ~/.local but the system menu on the left with the Logout and Shutdown icons are handled by /usr/bin/cinnamon-session which means finding out what happens when you click Restart on the "Shut down the system now?" dialog will require a trace or logging processes. Mobus, if you're going to try XFCE or some other variant and it works, I won't bother. However it would be interesting to know if you hang the system by typing either of these two commands.
/etc/init.d/reboot stop
or:
init 6
(sudo if you have to)

Of course, we're ignoring the obvious thing to do which would be to ask the Cinnamon devs directly.

These hung the same way.

[kode-niner]

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Someone I work with just told me that you could pass reboot= kernel parameters to modify how reboot is handled with hardware. Since I have similar problems on both my CF-29s now, I am going to experiment a bit. After a quick search, I found this:
http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/08/ ... -restarts/

[kode-niner]

Mobus, try this:

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sudo nano /etc/default/grub

One the line that says

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"

Modify it to this:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="reboot=bios quiet"

save the file, close it then type this:

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sudo update-grub

If you get an error, stop and post the error here before continuing.

Otherwise just shut down the system, bring it back up then attempt a reboot.

[Mobus]

Does the same hang.

I did notice something odd though. In my BIOS the date and time insist on being something other than what I set it to. For example just a bit ago I set it to 10PM (22:00) and the date to 07/22/14 and then I try this reboot thing that hangs and I go into BIOS on the next boot to check the date and time it will be 02:00 and the date will be 07/23/14. I'm beginning to wonder if either the BIOS battery is going bad (although all my other settings stay put) or if these were locked units that somebody goofed the bios up with a hacking tool. It was an ebay purchase after all so anything is possible.

[kode-niner]

First, let's see if what you did actually worked by typing:

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cat /proc/cmdline

and look for your reboot= text which should show you your last kernel boot command. If you did in fact do a reboot=bios then follow the instructions above but try replacing reboot=bios by one of these:
reboot=acpi
reboot=pci
reboot=force

[Mobus]

First, let's see if what you did actually worked by typing:

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cat /proc/cmdline

and look for your reboot= text which should show you your last kernel boot command. If you did in fact do a reboot=bios then follow the instructions above but try replacing reboot=bios by one of these:
reboot=acpi
reboot=pci
reboot=force

The result was this. I'll try the others and see if any work.
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=2f322ba7-4f72-4428-9f8b-cba1817ac6f1 ro reboot=bios quiet splash vt.handoff=7

BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=2f322ba7-4f72-4428-9f8b-cba1817ac6f1 ro reboot=acpi quiet splash vt.handoff=7


***UPDATE*** This one seems to restart it! I'm still testing this out, but so far 3 repeatable full cycle reboots.
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=2f322ba7-4f72-4428-9f8b-cba1817ac6f1 ro reboot=pci quiet splash vt.handoff=7

[Mobus]

Looks like my restart issue is SOLVED.

Here's the thing. Early on in this saga I found an Ubuntu forum post that showed the reboot=xxxxxx commands being put in between the quotation marks on this line of the grub file: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" Kode-Niner you had me try the same thing only one line above it, and on the reboot=pci one it works.

So the fix is: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="reboot=pci quiet splash"

Thanks everyone for all the help, suggestions and support.

Hopefully this thread can be of help to anyone else that might be experiencing this on their CF-18

[SHEEPMAN!]

One or more Gold Stars for kode-niner and the same for Mobus for telling us aboot it. w00t!