Updates Restart and Login question

[Dazed_75]

Thanks for the feedback Lisa and I genuinely hope it is helpful to
someone.  However, if you actually read my posts you will see that I
clearly state in both messages that this did not happen during bootup,
it happened during the ubuntu shutdown from the gdm login screen after
the restart.

Further, I have removed the -quiet option from the grub menu.lst so I
do see many of the linux messages during startup and shutdown.  The
shutdown messages from linux were streaking by on the screen while the
beeping was happening.  Of course that lasted only briefly before
everything went black so there was no opportunity to pause the display
before it was all gone.  Additionally, it only happened that one time.
 Everything is fine again.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> Generally beeping during boot indicates a hardware issue.  It's called "BIOS
> Post Beep":
>
> http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm  = BIOS boot beep codes
>
> When the Ubuntu kernel is booting there is not provision for beeping, since
> that layer of the OS is not yet loaded.
>
> 1) Verify your hardware and BIOS at reboot.
> 2) Boot noting failing items with exact error messages.
> 3) Search Google or the Ubuntu Forums for resolution.
>
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>> From: jasons at spatafore.net
>> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> Subject: Re: Updates Restart and Login question
>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:58:43 -0700
>>
>> Nope, you should be fine. Any queued actions should take place at your
>> next
>> login.
>>
>> If you did a clean shutdown (didn't press and hold power), I can't see
>> where
>> things could go wrong.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dazed_75" <lthielster at gmail.com>
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:54 PM
>> Subject: Updates Restart and Login question
>>
>>
>> >I am running ubuntu 8.04.1 on this machine. Update Manager siad there
>> > were updates available and after looking them over, I allowed them. A
>> > restart was required and I had it do that. Then I got busy. I was
>> > about to leave when I noticed the machine was waiting at the login
>> > screen. Since I was about to leave, I choose to shutdown from the
>> > login screen rather than logging in. I figured starting up later
>> > would be just as good.
>> >
>> > During shutdown, the machine started beeping at me like something was
>> > wrong. Messages flashed by rapidly but I did see the word failure
>> > several times. So my question is whether skipping the login on a
>> > required restart is a bad idea???\\
>> >
>> > BTW, I started it up again and everything seemed to go normally
>> > including a normal login.
>> >
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