No shutdown button !!!

[James Takac]

Hi Mario

On Sunday 10 August 2008 15:46:47 Mario Xerxes Castelán Castro wrote:
> debian escribió:
> > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:33 -0500, Mario Xerxes Castelán Castro wrote:
> >> Hello, i are using ubuntu 8.04.1 and the shut down button does not
> >> appear !!!
> >
> > did you run startx?
> >
> > doing this from a tty console will result in this
> >
> > --cj
>
> I have not run startx



it's possible the problem might be hardware related. Do you per chance have a 
particular nVidia card installed. It may not be the culprit but I've seen 
similar behaviour related to some nVidia graphics cards

James

PS
Do you get the same behaviour from a live cd?