6.10 not shutting power off

[Amr Youssef]

It happened once and I was forced to shut down my lap top manually and
when I entered ubuntu 6.10 once again it works normally

Regards

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:50 +0100, Francimsco Borges wrote:
> : On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:33AM +0000, John wrote:
> 
> > I'm a recent convert to Ubuntu and have installed 6.10 on my (rather
> > ancient, in computer years) Dell Inspiron laptop.
> >
> > Whereas all previous operating systems, including SuSE 10.0, have
> > shutdown and swithced off the power, U6.10 does not.
> >
> > I've tried a live U6.06 and this works fine.
> >
> > What's happened in 6.10 and how can I put the matter right?
> 
> I also own a Dell Inspiron (6400) that is running 6.10.
> 
> It powers off normally.
> 
> Two observations:
> 
> 1.
> 
> I am running Kubuntu (i.e. KDE), if you search the Ubuntu bug list, you
> will see some bugs related to people being unable to logoff from Gnome.
> (Gnome logout fails regularly for me). Could this be your problem? That
> you are trying to shutdown from inside Gnome, and Gnome won't do it
> because it's locked?
> 
> That happens because some other program holds Gnome, and as far as I
> could tell, Gnome itself is unable to catch programs that don't behave
> as it expects. Can somebody that knows Gnome better comment on this last
> part?
> 
> 2.
> 
> Rarely on 6.06 running KDE, the system would indeed fail to power
> off. But that has been rare, once, or at most twice, a month.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Francisco
> 
>