Can't shutdown

[Jim Byrnes]

Pongo A. Pan wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 08:14 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 12 December 2010 03:29, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>   wrote:
>>>> I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and seem to be stuck in an endless loop where I
>>>> can't shutdown the computer.  I click on the shutdown symbol in the top
>>>> tray and select shutdown from the drop down menu.  I get the shutdown
>>>> confirmation dialog and select OK and the screen blanks.  Then a dialog
>>>> appears asking if I want to log in as my username or other.  I then end
>>>> up back on the desktop.
>>>>
>>>> How can I correct this so I don't have to simply use the power switch?
>>>
>>> Don't know why the problem might be occurring but once you get back to
>>> the login page there should be a power off button at the bottom of the
>>> screen, which may then allow you to power down.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, I never noticed that it was even there. I tried it but the login
>> dialog just remained on the screen.  Patton's terminal solution worked
>> for me, so I must have had a GUI problem.
>
> Jim, are you running the Open Office quickstarter?  It is useful but
> sporadically makes it impossible to shut down here from GNOME unless I
> kill it first.
>

No, I just looked and quickstarter is not checked.  I did have 
OpenOffice Calc open for quite some time though before I tried to shutdown.

Regards,  Jim