I experienced the same installing Kubuntu on a Toshiba Equium-L20 laptop. I'd guess the problem is with casper, rather than Kshutdown.
-- Feisty Herd5 Live CD Does Not Eject at Shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/90706 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
