Every shutdown will down a failure to umount /var and /home. To compensate for the awful installation partitioning, I had some /var stuff bound to folders on /home. Then, of course, this behavior was to be expected (though they should have been "unbound" at this point).
Since I put in a second disk which solved the problem, have properly big- enough partitions for /var, the bindings are long gone. Still get the umount error messages.
