New distro - and logging off

[Neil Winchurst]

Recently I replaced my old distro with Mint Maya Xfce. So far I have 
been very pleased. This is especially so re the speed, it is incredibly 
fast compared to any I have used before.

Except for one instance, logging off. When, at the desktop, I choose to 
shut down the computer it just sits there for about 55 seconds. (The 
first couple of times I thought something was wrong.) Then it suddenly 
shows a couple of lines of text and then closes down.

Since everything else is so fast I cannot understand why this should 
take so long. I am a bit baffled as to where to look. What can it be 
doing for all this time? Of course this may be a Mint problem rather 
than Xfce.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Neil