Hi Bladud, I have again turned on nepomuk and shutdown. Started again and during the second shutdown, the command suggested by you, "ps -wweo pid,state,args | grep nepomuk" gave the following result (during shutdown fase, every 2 sec ps command was given, results from are given from the last one (about 34 sec. after the shutdown command)):
2049 S /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_feeder 2094 S /usr/bin/nepomukserver 2099 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage 2123 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukqueryservice 2124 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch 2125 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukbackupsync 2126 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfileindexer 2431 S grep nepomuk S /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder --identifier akonadi_nepomuk_feeder 2094 S /usr/bin/nepomukserver 2099 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage 2123 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukqueryservice 2124 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch 2125 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukbackupsync 2126 S /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfileindexer 2431 S grep nepomuk My version of nepomuk is: kde-runtime-data 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.1 Success with finding the cause of the bug. Nelly -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053783 Title: Ubuntu 12.04 - Stalled shutdown after having had KAlarm opened; with package info. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1053783/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs