Puzzled - how Netrunner makes it right and Kubuntu does not?

[Mike McGinn]

On Thursday, July 31, 2014 20:40:31 Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > I cannot restart or shutdown Kubuntu neither via GUI, nor from CLI
> > within a session, nor from GUI or TTY after logout. "Will now
> > halt..." is displayed and stays there forever forcing the use of
> > Power Off button.
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > Any ideas folks?
> 
> This is probably a long (or endless, or interminable!) shot, but are
> you using NFS to connect your computer to other computers in your
> local network? It can hang your computer on shut-down if you didn't
> dismount the other computer(s) before it (they) shut down. Like I
> said, it's probably a long shot, but hey - you never know! (:

Funny,  I use a lot of NFS mounts with Debian Wheezy and Squeeze, as well as 
Ubuntu 12.04 and have never seen that problem. Maybe it could happen with 
manual mounts, but anything in fstab seems to get dismounted by the shutdown.

What sayeth the logs?
What sayeth the grub config?

Beast,
Mike


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