[ubuntu-uk] Does a hard shutdown actually damage anything?

[Andy Braben]

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.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 10:01:28 +0100, John Matthews <jakewc2 at 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.
>
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