Bug#691902: Unable to shutdown Debian Wheezy via normal means

[Jochen Fahrner <jf@fahrner.name>]

Hi,
I just switched from Ubuntu to Debian 7.5 (Gnome 3) and have the same
issue. Kernel is 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1 x86_64
GNU/Linux.

I was working with Ubuntu for several years and never had such a problem
with any kernel. I was using Ubuntu 12.04 with LTS enablement stack, so
I got many different version of the kernel, starting at 3.2 and ending
with 3.11. After upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 I used kernel 3.13.0 and also
had no problem.

So, maybe this is not an issue with the kernel, but with something else
in Debians shutdown procedure? Maybe the setting of RTC in shutdown
procedure? (I think Ubuntu does not set it on shutdown)

Jochen