It's still affecting a number of laptops (someone else's Toshiba Tecra, my Thinkpad T22). The T22 fails to shutdown only when the power cord has been plugged or unplugged during use.
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- Power down after shutdown does not work... https://launchpad.net/bugs/43961 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs