General Problems - Fixed!

Bad Battery "Your battery may be broken"

From the Desktop, press Alt+F2 to bring up Ubuntu's run prompt, Enter gconf-editor and click Run, In the left pane, navigate to apps >> gnome-power-manager >> notify and deselect low_capacity

"The system will not complete a reboot. It just hangs on the Ubuntu screen. Shutdown works fine."

GRUB is the boot loader package responsible for starting up and shutting down your computer. Try editing the following GRUB configuration file and see if it makes a difference. HINT: if you hit the Esc key while your computer is booting up or shutting down during the Ubuntu splash screen, you may get more text information about what your computer is doing. If you're not comfortable working in a terminal, grab some help on this one. In a terminal, type: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash quiet" and edit it to read: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="reboot=bios splash quiet" Save and exit. In a terminal, type: sudo update-grub Shut down the computer, power on again and try rebooting. Is fixed, no?