save system clock to hardware clock

I am not at all sure this is a Trinity issue, it could very well be Ubuntu problem. I was working on the logout issue, since I was running lightdm instead of kdm-trinity. NOW when I tell it to reboot, it hangs going down and the last message on the screen is: save system clock to hardware clock. a CTRL-ALT-DEL just cycles the last 4 items and it goes right back to sitting at that error message. So then I just have to hard power down using the SWITCH.

any suggestions??