Confirmed - I am experiencing precisely the same issue. In my case I can make the shutdown continue by pressing the power button (triggering an ACPI shutdown event). My setup
Hardy Beta AMD64 nVidia 7900GT with nvidia-glx-new, compiz turned on This problem first appeared in the last few days, after some updates (as far as I can tell). -- System freeze during shutdown with an empty screen with gnome's background image https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
