Can't shutdown

ms devicerandom at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 13:33:05 UTC 2010


On 13/12/10 05:24, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 13/12/2010 16:10, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 18:19 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 01:08 +0000, ms wrote:
>>>>> On 12/12/10 20:46, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>>>>> If the shutdown is of your own contrivance, I strongly recommend
>>>>>> killing all your windows before issuing the shutdown.
>>>>> Why?
>>>> A normal shutdown does that. Shuts things down cleanly. A false-normal
>>>> shutdown may not. Ric
>>>>
>>> That is not what I've seen.
>> Huh, mine usually does. I'll have to play with this and see what's
>> up. :) Ric
>
>
> I am not sure that it is really necessary to "look". Linux issues the
> command for any running apps to close and waits until they do before
> shutting down.
>
> Go ALT-CTRL-F3, say, and, as root, issue the "halt" (or even the
> "reboot") command - and watch the messages which come up.
>
> However, if you hit the RESET button or hold down the POWER button to
> shutdown then it's a totally different story.

Oh well yes, I was talking of issuing "halt" vs the GUI shutdown, not a 
cold turn off.

-- 
Massimo Sandal, Ph.D.
http://devicerandom.org




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list