I can confirm that his bug is in a 8.10 desktop 32 bit VMware VM (on- line upgraded from 8.04 today) along with a 8.10 desktop 64bit VM that was installed from the official release CD a few days ago (with all current upgrade packages).
The VMWare environment should indicate that particular hardware combinations are not the issue. I also found that if you can kill the amixer process then the shutdown continues as normal. -- storing ALSA mixer element values during shutdown hangs nondeterministically if non-loopback network interfaces are still up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs