I have a freshly installed ubuntu 12.10 on a HP DM4 laptop.

I saw a few times the following error "mount / is busy" and added a few lines in the umountfs script. These were

killall -9 plymouthd
killall -9 dhclient
killall -9 /sbin/plymouthd
killall -9 /sbin/dhclient
killall -9 dnsmasq
killall -9 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq


ps -Af > /a/ps
lsof > /a/lsof
sync && sleep 30 && sync

However even after this when I shutdown the system via the menu it does not shutdown. Screenshots are attached. It stayed in the same state for atleast 20min.

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