On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 22:27 -0400, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: >> I run BleachBit and this seems to ... > > And, for what it's worth, I'm always highly wary of using any third > party tool to maintain a system. Quite apart from the fact that there's > been various Windows things that claim to improve things, but just make > them worse, or are outright malware. There's the issue of the > application lagging behind the design of your system. As soon as > there's a change to how your system does something that it will > interfere with, you've either got to wait for it to catch up with the > new way of doing it, or risk it stuffing up your system. > > Webmin and LinuxConf are two things that I've experienced them balls-up > a Linux installation, long ago. So it's not just a Windows issue. > Dear all, at last I've found the source of problem. It is fail2ban (an application which "bans IPs that make too many password failures", that I use for SSH attacks). It takes a very large amount of time to stop. In fact, without it, F17 shutdown/reboot in few seconds. Now, I probably submit a bug for fail2ban (in F16, it worked OK) Thanks to all for the very helpful hints Best, -- Marco -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org