Often (now, perhaps always) when I try to halt using either halt from the command line or the shutdown option from the gnome dialog box at the welcome screen the effort fails.
If I try to shutdown from gnome, the shutdown hangs at the unmounting file systems. I then tried shutdown now from a text terminal. When in single user mode, I tried umount -a which indicated that several filesystems were still busy. I tried lsof and noticed that console-kit-daemon and esd were still running. I manually kill console-kit-daemon and can then halt. /var/log/messages contains Apr 8 00:32:46 allan console-kit-daemon[6139]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_async_queue_unref: assertion `queue->waiting_threads == 0' failed I would appreciate help in understanding why policy-kit-daemon is not terminating on a normal system shutdown. thanks, allan
