Can't shutdown or logout

[Henry Dubb]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:23 PM, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:37:16 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > Anyone met this one?
> >
> > My laptop is functioning perfectly, with a desktop spread across its
> > internal & an external monitor. (Mint 9, which is to say, Ubuntu 10.04.
> > Suspend or hibernate and resume doesn't work but I can live with that.)
> >
> > The only snag is, it completely ignores me when I try to log out or shut
> > down. Nothing happens, no error, zero.
>

Had this problem when 10.04 first came out, but updates in Mint 9 took care
of it. I noticed that lock screen would allow me to shut down, reboot etc.

> >
> > Any pointers at where to look for more info? Does the GNOME shell log
> > stuff like this anywhere I can look at?
>
> sudo shutdown -h now
>
>
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