ubuntu doesn't shut down

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Sat Oct 29 22:12:31 UTC 2005


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renaaj at optonline.net wrote:
| Anyone have an idea on this?  I installed ubuntu again and
| yet again the act of selecting shutdown from ubuntu (1)
| doesn't power down the laptop, (2) it renders the laptop's
| power button useless, and (3) I have to take the battery of
| the laptop in order to turn it off.

Are you holding the power button down for eight seconds?

Ed
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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