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On 05/01/12 12:32, Barry Drake wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4F05984D.9070601@gmx.com" type="cite">On
05/01/12 12:24, David King wrote:
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This happened recently to my girlfriend's Ubuntu laptop, so she
had to do the same to get the shutdown option back.
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As an emergency measure when this happens, you can do
'ctrl+alt+F2' which gives you a command prompt and then do 'sudo
shutdown now' to turn off properly rather than the brute force
method.
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Regards, Barry.
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At the time, she still had the Logout option, so used that and then
Shut down from the login screen.<br>
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David K<br>
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