but what would you do on a server, when the physical power button does nothing?<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2010 13:41, Glen Mehn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen.mehn@oba.co.uk">glen.mehn@oba.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"> when you do the power pull, you could have data corruption for<br>anything that's not written to the filesystem (the details of this are<br>
a) very boring and b) vary by filesystem.<br><br>To avoid problems, stop (or kill) all running programs, and do:<br><br>sudo halt<br>or<br>sudo shutdown -h now<br>(which is what the poweroff button calls in any case)<br>
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It's not the end of the world, but I have had wedged systems with<br>unkillable files and whatnot before. Typically, you can reinstall the<br>affected applications if you know what they are.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Glen<br>
<div class="im"><br>On 03/09/10 09:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:<br></div>
<div class="im">> Hi,<br>><br>> Once again I lost my shutdown function; not only did shutdown vanish<br>> from my main menu, but when I added the Session Indicator Applet to the<br>> panel, the shutdown option on this did not work either; only the user<br>
> switcher option worked. Therefore, I had to shutdown by pressing and<br>> holding the power button. This being the second time this has happened,<br>> I should like to know, what are the dangers of doing a hard shutdown?<br>
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