On 3 September 2010 12:36, Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/09/10 09:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Once again I lost my shutdown function; not only did shutdown vanish
>> from my main menu, but when I added the Session Indicator Applet to the
>> panel, the shutdown option on this did not work either; only the user
>> switcher option worked. Therefore, I had to shutdown by pressing and
>> holding the power button. This being the second time this has happened,
>> I should like to know, what are the dangers of doing a hard shutdown?
>
> Sometime I see my username twice in the right hand top panel and do not
> have the Session Indicator Applet visible.
>
> However, if you use the "Special" od "Windows Key" + S it will still
> display the sutdown menu.
>
> If that fails...
>
> Close all your open applications,
> Open a terminal (or go to a new tty: ALT+CTL+F{1,6}, login) and type:
>
> sudo halt
>
> This will shut down the system properly.You don't even need to do that much. Switch to a vconsole with Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F6 and then just press Ctrl-Alt-Del. This will force a reboot with no need to login or anything. When the machine reboots, just turn it off. > There is very rarely any need to power down forcibly. Very true. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
