F17 takes so long to reboot/poweroff

[sguazt]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, sguazt <marco.guazzone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> 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)

For the ones interested, I've submitted a new bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844911

Cheers,

-- Marco