Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back this up.
On 4/8/09, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > Often (now, perhaps always) when I try to halt using either > halt > from the command line or the > shutdown > option from the gnome dialog box at the welcome screen > the effort fails. > > If I try to shutdown from gnome, the shutdown hangs at > the unmounting file systems. > > I then tried > shutdown now > from a text terminal. > When in single user mode, I tried > umount -a > which indicated that several filesystems were still busy. > > I tried > lsof > and noticed that console-kit-daemon and esd > were still running. > > I manually kill console-kit-daemon and can then halt. > > /var/log/messages contains > Apr 8 00:32:46 allan console-kit-daemon[6139]: GLib-CRITICAL: > g_async_queue_unref: assertion `queue->waiting_threads == 0' failed > > I would appreciate help in understanding why policy-kit-daemon is not > terminating on a normal system shutdown. > > thanks, > allan > >