loss of restart and shutdown options in exit menu

[Stephen Ryan]

On 3/2/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 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!

I noticed a loss of these when I was trying to run XGL/beryl.
Switching back to the regular X server brought them back.