but what would you do on a server, when the physical power button does nothing?
On 3 September 2010 13:41, Glen Mehn <glen.m...@oba.co.uk> wrote: > when you do the power pull, you could have data corruption for > anything that's not written to the filesystem (the details of this are > a) very boring and b) vary by filesystem. > > To avoid problems, stop (or kill) all running programs, and do: > > sudo halt > or > sudo shutdown -h now > (which is what the poweroff button calls in any case) > > It's not the end of the world, but I have had wedged systems with > unkillable files and whatnot before. Typically, you can reinstall the > affected applications if you know what they are. > > Best, > > Glen > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Glen Mehn > glen.m...@oba.co.uk > skype: glenmehn | blog: http://glen.mehn.net/mba > UK: +44(0)7942 675 755 | US: +1 415 704 4737 > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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