[ubuntu-za] System won't shut down

[Bill Cairns]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> To answer my own question: I went to System - Administration - Users
> and Groups. and changed my Account Type from Custom to Administrator.
>
> Now I can shut down in the normal fashion.
>
> Thanks for the hint. How what got changed I have no idea!
>
> Bill
>

I spoke too soon and the problem persists. My user (bill) is
administrator but clicking on shut down in the normal fashion does
nothing. "sudo halt" shuts the system effectively.

(I am sure that it worked once after I changed bill to administrator).

Any idas?

Bill the unstopper