Using poweroff --force does shutdown my laptop, but I worry that might not be a graceful or safe way of doing so...
It is clearly an issue with some process not responding correctly to the request for it to quit. If it is of relevance, I also experienced the Xauthority issue as part of the upgrade (inability to log in to account due to LightDM borking some permissions somewhere during the upgrade), so I wonder if what caused that also caused this issue... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882817 Title: shutdown screen stuck after upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/882817/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
