On 3 September 2010 09:50, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> 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?
I'm not an expert on the dangers of a hard shutdown, but I would imagine that there's the possibility of data loss when partitions aren't unmounted properly. A couple of times I've had the shutdown option on the menu fail on me, but I normally get round it but using: sudo shutdown -h now See man shutdown for the various options. I believe there is a halt command too, but I've always just used shutdown. Gus -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
