I can confirm that his bug is in a 8.10 desktop 32 bit VMware VM (on-line upgraded from 8.04 today) along with a 8.10 desktop 64bit VM that was installed from the official release CD a few days ago (with all current upgrade packages).
The VMWare environment should indicate that particular hardware combinations are not the issue.
I also found that if you can kill the amixer process then the shutdown continues as normal.
I can confirm that his bug is in a 8.10 desktop 32 bit VMware VM (on-line upgraded from 8.04 today) along with a 8.10 desktop 64bit VM that was installed from the official release CD a few days ago (with all current upgrade packages).
The VMWare environment should indicate that particular hardware combinations are not the issue.
I also found that if you can kill the amixer process then the shutdown continues as normal.