This is actually a tangent to the incomplete shutdown problem that I
have been working on. In my initial post I wondered if, as a work-around
of sorts, I could create a shutdown splash screen that would remain
on-screen on machines that suffer from the shutdown problem.
So pending a fix for
Some updates on this problem:
The problem is not confined to LTSP clients. I booted an Lubuntu Live
CD on one of the affected clients and found that it hung during shutdown
also.
The problem is also not Gnome-specific, as someone suggested.
I downloaded Kubuntu