On 05/01/12 12:24, David King wrote:
This happened recently to my girlfriend's Ubuntu laptop, so she had to do the same to get the shutdown option back.
As an emergency measure when this happens, you can do 'ctrl+alt+F2' which gives you a command prompt and then do 'sudo shutdown now' to turn off properly rather than the brute force method.
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