I get the same behaviour. When shutting down or restarting from gnome-shell menu the selected routine halts and nothing happens (I can still jump to tty and issue "shutdown" from there which works okay).
Note: I get this *only* when using systemv (old init system), it works fine when I boot with systemd. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
