I've had the same problem on my box. As a temporary fix, I changed "-- retry 30" to "--retry 2" in /etc/init.d/gdm, now there's only a almost unnoticeable pause of two seconds during shutdown.
It still says "gdm[<pid>]: WARNING: main daemon: Got SIGABRT. Something went very wrong. Going down!" in syslog, so it probably isn't the perfect solution. ** Attachment added: "gdm.patch" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13587268/gdm.patch -- Hardy alpha5: Shutting down GDM takes a long time. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195434 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