*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1871794 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871794
I replaced default.pa with the one extracted from the deb mentioned by
@David but, in my case, it did not fixed the issue, so as @Hui said
there can be several underlying issues causing the same problem.
In
The accounts.conf file is also used by the new Ubuntu online accounts
configuration. The problem seems to be that after an upgrade the old
entry from the original Gnome online accounts application is left. The
new online accounts utility adds entries after the previous one which is
the one causing
There is a workaround that is working in my case and avoids hanged
shutdowns that could damage the filesystems.
I modified /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn so when the power button is pressed
it launches a custom script to do the shutdown that basically stops
lightdm, kills processes from users, waits 30
I was suffering the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 both in Unity and Gnome
Desktops, so I tried to look for the source and even if you can close
kalarm correctly the nepomuk and akonadi servers continue to run in the
background.
After exiting kalarm if you kill manually akonadi and nepomukserver the
