Comment 30 for bug 1447038

I did some testing on this bug.

Due to some issues between me and the cdimage server, I ran the 20160129 image of Lubuntu Desktop in my QA testing VM, on my VMware Workstation Pro 12 environments (both 32bit and 64bit). There is indeed a "won't shutdown" issue, but I think it's related to the prompt that shows up on the other already-released ISOs for the main releases - it asks for the user to hit "Enter" to reboot after ejecting or removing installation media. This does not display, though, so it looks like a "won't shutdown ever" issue.

Given that I remembered this, though, in a test to see if this was the issue, I hit "Enter" at the blinking cursor I see when running this in VMware, when it appears to not "shut down". This allows the system to shut down as it should, and hitting "Enter" then has the guest "live" session shut off as it should.

I think, then, that with the images, it may be a case that it is waiting for the response to this prompt, hence the "Unlimited" task of waiting for user input. As referenced to in comment 25 here, the waiting for the enter keystroke is what is hanging it up, and the splash screens not showing up to show this is the main issue.