After I replaced network-manager with wicd on 12.10 everything works perfectly. Now shutdown is much faster -- no delays at all. And I got rid of the hacked init scripts that I was using to circumvent the bug.
Thanks for mentioning wicd, Russell. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1124803 Title: NetworkManager doesn't respond to SIGTERM in daemon mode To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/1124803/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs