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Problem restarting my Ubuntu system

Problem restarting my Ubuntu system

Whenever I try to restart my Ubuntu either from the command line by typing reboot or in GNOME the computer goes from X to console, starts the shutdown process and then a message saying "[ some number ] Starting new kernel" appears on the screen and the computer goes back to X login screen. I suspect this must have something to do with nvidia drivers, because it seemed to have appeared around the time I bought a new graphic card. Also, when I reboot the second time I see weird graphical artifacts on the screen. When I boot from ubuntu live cd I can reboot just fine. I used jaunty, recently I switched to karmic with no change.

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Guest [Entry]

"""this is not a bug, but a feature"" :)

Just change the line ""LOAD_KEXEC=true"" to ""LOAD_KEXEC=false"" in the file /etc/default/kexec.

The motivation is given in the file ""/usr/share/doc/kexec-tools/README.Debian"".

The corrupted graphic display is normal when reinitialization of the graphic memory is performed at boot, without cleaning the memory before the display."