I run openSUSE 12.2 LXDE on my very trusty and mobile nc2400 (Intel(R) Core™ Duo CPU U2500, 2GB RAM, Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)). When I logout the systems pops into terminal and sorta just hangs there. No problems when I do a reboot or shutdown.
Same hardware works without issue with Lubuntu, Fedora LXDE. I like light-weight DEs.
Any who faced this? Would hate to format my trusty lappy with anything other than Geeko.
What worked for me, after I noted the problem error (see post#18) was to disable the boot splash. I put ‘splash=off’ as a legacy grub boot code and I had no problems after that.
Its quite possible your problem is different.
Did you look inside /var/log/messages to try and get a clue as to why this is occuring ? I’m not saying I can help (I probably can not) but you may be able to figure this out yourself. or if not have some information to post so that other’s can speculate on this.
The other day when i tried out https://freenetproject.org/ and found that my shutdown time had suddenly increased drastically from around 30 seconds to 2 mins on GNOME 3.4.2 / openSUSE 12.2 . I hadn’t realised that this freenet thing was causing the issue. After a couple of days i noticed that there were always three java threads in my gnome-monitor. Immediately i terminated these three processes and uninstalled freenet. This restored by earlier shutdown time of about 30 seconds. Earlier when i was using 12.1 too i found that shutdown time could be improved if i shutdown Tomboy, Artha etc(which sit in my tray) manually before shutting down. I think there may be some rouge application that might be preventing the shutdown of your machine.