On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:01:28 +0100, John Matthews <jake...@sky.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? Thanks, Rowan > > This has happened to me on a couple of occasions, and not sure why. > But I got around a hard shut down, by clicking on switching user, and > on the sign in page, you have the option there in the right hand > corner of restart, or shutting down and other options. At least mine > does. As for the loss of the button, I did sudo aptitude update then > sudo aptitude upgrade, and it seemed to bring the button and options > back. Have no idea if it was the right thing to do, but that worked > for me. John.
On this last occasion I got to the sign in page (what I referred to as the 'user switcher' above) and the shutdown from there didn't work either. This suggests to me that it isn't just a matter of some particular menu item, link, launcher or button pointing to the shutdown sequence vanishing, it is the ability to shutdown itself, from anywhere in the GUI, that vanishes. I shall certainly use "sudo shutdown -h now" if/when it happens in future. Thanks to all. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
