After months of attempts to fix this, I've finally found one that works
for Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty). The problem is that Kubuntu (and I believe
KDE more generally) starts the shutdown process in a way different than
Gnome/Ubuntu, so even the dbus / netbase fixes, the fix above in #158,
and using
I still have a hang on reboot / shutdown even after installing the more
recent netbase (4.45ubuntu3) and dbus (1.4.8-3ubuntu2) packages on my
Kubuntu 11.04 laptop. I have four cifs shares defined in fstab. If I
shutdown or reboot, I see network-manager caught signal 15, then a
message about
I get the same issue on a 64-bit lucid lynx installation. In my case,
temporarily removing wins from /etc/nsswitch.conf, rebooting, then
starting Rhythmbox and unchecking the Ubuntu One Store and Lastfm
plugins, then adding wins back in to /etc/nsswitch.conf and rebooting
was enough to allow
