I also experienced a blocked system every time i shutdown or reboot my Dell Latitude 6530 with ubuntu 14.10 (64bit), after upgrading from 14.04). If i remove the "quiet splash" kernel option from the grub menu, the last message seen is "wait-for-state stop/waiting".
After installing "systemd-sysv" and a final shutdown problem on invoking "halt", the problem seems to be gone (2 reboots and one halt were successful). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1349566 Title: systemd-logind triggered poweroffs ignore upstart services To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1349566/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs