[Bug 803709] Re: last message on the screen at shutdown is "Checking for running unattended-upgrades:"

[Steve Langasek]

It may be that the reason your shutdown stops there is because there are
unattended upgrades in progress at the time, and so it waits for them to
finish.

Your screenshot definitely shows two related bugs:

 - plymouth is failing to launch the splash screen for you.  This is a bug in plymouth (though I don't know what might be causing it).
 - unattended-upgrades is configured to report the status of any running upgrades via plymouth, but this *isn't* where the "checking" message is sent, that message is sent to the console.  Even though we want proper plymouth integration and we want the message to show on the splash at shutdown, unattended-upgrades should *also* send status to the console, for consistency there.

** Summary changed:

- Hang on shutdown
+ last message on the screen at shutdown is "Checking for running unattended-upgrades:"

** Package changed: upstart (Ubuntu) => unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Also affects: plymouth (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: plymouth (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  last message on the screen at shutdown is "Checking for running
  unattended-upgrades:"

Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Every once in a while since upgrading from 10.04 to 11.04 my computer
  will hang on shutdown while showing a text console.  This isn't fun
  for when shutting down unattended.

  The last message on the screen is "Checking for running unattended-
  upgrades: _"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: upstart 0.9.7-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jun 29 20:41:16 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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