-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/12 12:32, Barry Drake wrote: > 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. > > Regards, Barry. >
If you have Unity ie Ubuntu 11.04 up you can click on the dash and type in shutdown and click on the icon that appears. - -- You make it, I'll break it! I love my job :) http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.canonical.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8FnCQACgkQT5xqyT+h3OgP6QCfdmermJ5mqbUDE5wVoGiP+eyJ ns4AnRjqhxKD4JgvbdVE2diVT3MJl6Gi =l69q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/