the act of stopping & starting a process, or rebooting an entire PC.
17
votes
6answers
34k views
How do I restart an Unity session from the terminal?
The command for restarting Gnome2 is:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
What is the equivalent for Unity?
24
votes
3answers
6k views
How can I tell what package requires a reboot of my system?
I have unattended-upgrade set up on my Ubuntu systems. Occasionally I will log in remotely to one of them and I'll see a message informing me that I need to reboot the system (in order to complete ...
11
votes
3answers
1k views
How resilient is Ubuntu to repeated “power-off” shutdowns?
My company is considering the use of Ubuntu as an OS for use on a hardware device.
It would be installed on compact flash drive - apparently this is not standard flash drive but a specific type of ...
3
votes
3answers
5k views
Dell Studio 1569 Cannot Shutdown in Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04
I have not tried a version of Ubuntu prior to 11.10 on my machine.
The laptop will not shut down or restart. Shutting down causes it to pause at "Will now Halt", where upon it sits until the battery ...
1
vote
1answer
633 views
Shutdown or Restart only logs me out
My workstation at work is running 11.10 (lightdm). Shutting down or restarting has always worked up till last week.
My workstation is generally left on through the week and shutdown at weekends.
...
1
vote
2answers
9k views
How to avoid “Assuming drive cache: write through” message during restart? [closed]
Does anyone know how to avoid message:
Assuming drive cache: write through
Showing up after preforming sudo shutdown -r now.
I restarted remotely but the computer did not restart. And I could ...
4
votes
4answers
24k views
Read-only file system
The title might not be as descriptive as I would like it to be but couldn't come up with a better one.
My server's file system went into Read-only. And I don't understand why it does so and how to ...
5
votes
3answers
1k views
Shutdown / restart does not complete [closed]
Sometimes when I try to shut-down or restart, I get an error saying:
A program is still running: Unknown Not Responding
It gives three choices
Lock Screen
Cancel
Reboot anyway (or Shutdown Anyway)
...
11
votes
4answers
5k views
“Shutdown” or “Restart” logs out
While logged in as a sudo user, click the right top power icon, then select and click "Shutdown" menu, it comes up with a dialog asking if I want to close all programs. The dialog has two options: ...
5
votes
2answers
2k views
Unable to shutdown/restart/hibernate
After I installed ubuntu 11.04, it wont shutdown nor restart, it just freeze, and I have to hold the power button in order to turn off my netbook. (It also happens on livecd)
Can anyone tell me the ...
2
votes
2answers
852 views
Remote reboot over ssh does not restart [duplicate]
I would like to remotely reboot my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server via ssh. I do sudo reboot and I loose connection and the server connection does not reappear. It does not ping.
When I go the the physical ...
1
vote
1answer
36 views
How I can restart all the programs configuration?
I want to know if there is any way to reset all the settings of the programs what I've installed. For example, restart the configuration of Gparted or Rhythmbox.
5
votes
2answers
865 views
How to suppress or disable the shutdown option from indicator menu or shutdown dialog?
My goal is to allow user only to restart the system, and deny any shutdown (suspend, hibernate). I am running unity-2d.
I 've managed to deny suspend and hibernate with polkit policy files like ...
4
votes
6answers
1k views
Cannot restart, reboot, nor shutdown Ubuntu 11.04
I cannot restart, reboot or shut-down my PC using Natty.
Whenever I hit shut-down, restart or in terminal sudo reboot it shows a black screen.
If I should press down the power button for while, it ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
Laptop USB ports stop working: how to restart them without restarting the PC? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
USB slots stop working suddenly from time to time
The usb ports of my laptop fail for some reason from time to time. This concerns apparently mainly the external mouse ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
How to set keyboard combination to kill the X server?
It used to be ctrl+alt+backspace to kill x server, but for some unknown reason, it was decided to disable that combination and use something else (I think it is right alt + printscreen +k).
So, how ...
2
votes
2answers
591 views
After suspend, my laptop restarts instead of waking up
My laptop is Vaio VPCF11M1E
UBUNTU 10.10 64bit
After being in suspend state i press the power button to wake up, but it restarts the machine.
And a clear ubuntu is coming up.
But hibernating works.
...
0
votes
3answers
3k views
Ubuntu 12.04 does a restart instead of a shutdown
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 on my Dell Latitude D630C.
Now, when I want to shut down the system does shut down but then starts up again immediately. It's like it does a reboot ...
10
votes
1answer
6k views
“System restart required” flag, who sets it and why? How to read it? [duplicate]
When you log into Ubuntu (10.04 in my case), you get to see this notice saying:
*** System restart required ***
Now, I'm wondering what system component sets it and why it gets set? Using ksplice ...
2
votes
0answers
284 views
STANDBY/SUSPEND TO RAM does not work - ASUS EeePC wakes up immediately
I'm using 12.04 on a ASUS 1201 EeePC.
Hibernation works well after re-enabling (thanks for that post!), but the SUSPEND mode does not persist.
After switching the Netbook off it is awaking immediately ...
1
vote
1answer
264 views
Laptop restarts sometimes when I move the lid
I have a 2006 Acer Aspire 5630 running Ubuntu 11.04. recently it started to have these symptoms:
Random restarts
Restarts whenever I move the lid forward or backward by one inch.
Restarts the most ...
