loss of restart and shutdown options in exit menu

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> I had the same problem. Which version are you using ?
> 
> check if you have the "halt" or "reboot" commands on bash. When it 
> happened to me it turned out that something has removed them (along with 
> the "init" command). To resolved this issue I did :
> 
> ~$ apt-file search bin/halt
> klibc-utils: usr/lib/klibc/bin/halt
> klibc-utils: usr/lib/klibc/bin/halt
> molly-guard: usr/sbin/halt
> molly-guard: usr/sbin/halt
> sysvinit: sbin/halt
> sysvinit: sbin/halt
> upstart-compat-sysv: sbin/halt
> upstart-compat-sysv: sbin/halt
> 
> then I installed sysvinit to get it back.
> 
> 

No joy I'm afraid, I have several instances of halt on my system, 
according to slocate. If I try to install sysvinit it removes 
ubuntu-minial and upstart-compat-sysvinit and several others. I did this 
anyway and did get my options back. Then I reinstall ubuntu-minimal to 
get back to where I was and still no joy. Hmmmm, more suggestions are 
very welcome!