shutdown and log out not working Ubuntu 11.10

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 16:25, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 31 October 2011 15:35, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 31 October 2011 13:40, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 31 October 2011 13:07, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04.  Now when you try to log out or
>>>>>>>> shutdown, I get nowhere.  If I hit the off switch on the laptop Ubuntu
>>>>>>>> shuts down, however.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you mean it just powers off, or does it do a normal shutdown?
>>>>>
>>>>> You did not answer this question
>>>>
>>>> I would say it just powers off, but I am not sure I know the difference.
>>>
>>> A power off will happen with no disk or screen activity, it will just
>>> die.  Usually you will have to hold the power button down for several
>>> seconds to invoke this, rather than 'hitting' the button which may
>>> well .  A normal shutdown will take at least a few seconds (it takes
>>> about 10 on my machine) and will probably involve the screen changing,
>>> scrolling Ubuntu dots and so on.  I presume that you know what a
>>> normal power down is like from the operation prior to the problem
>>> occurring.
>>>
>>> Also if you have forced a power off without going through a normal
>>> power down then on restart you should see it checking the disk to
>>> clean up the file system.  You will likely see messages about inodes
>>> and so on.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the details.  This is a normal shut down.  I hold the power
>> button for a second and then it shuts down.  11.10 is taking longer
>> than previous versions, maybe 30 seconds.  But no disk checks
>> afterwards.
>
> So just to check, in the indicator-session dropdown you see Logout and
> Shutdown, but selecting either of these does absolutely nothing?
>
> Have a look in the logs (log file viewer, syslog) to see if anything
> is added to the log when you click logout or shutdown.
>
> Colin
>
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