using CTRL+ALT+DEL would work, just kill the power when the bios runs again
On 3 September 2010 11:21, Andy Braben <andybra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Having had someone mention this problem to me and solved it via a hard > shut down, my advice was to NEVER hard shutdown, but to press > ctrl+alt+delete and select shutdown from the dialog box that appears. > That worked perfectly and seems to be the simplest option which does > not involve the command line. However another command line option is > simply "sudo poweroff". > > Regards, > Andy. > > On 3 September 2010 10:51, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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/ > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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