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I got fed up with having the shutdown process in Ubuntu edgy (and feisty) freeze up, so I did some investigating. It turns out that the hyperestraier package, which is part of Universe rather than Main, causes the lockup. Its estmaster program can grind to a halt when given the "stop" argument, which is what /etc/init.d/hyperestraier does. I noticed that the newly-uploaded 1.4.8-1 hyperestraier package in feisty fixes this, so I requested that this be backported to edgy.

I'm using feisty, so this doesn't affect me so much anymore, but this could definitely be a showstopper if someone uses the Kazehakase web-browser that I advocate while having edgy installed (since kazehakase suggests this package), so I want to see the backport happen.