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Unable to shutdown, restart or log out
I have been unable to restart, shutdown, or log out of ubuntu since the release of 12.04. I have upgrade at the time of release for 12.10 and now for 13.04 and have had no change in the situation. On ...
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How do I modify the userMenu icon?
I've been looking forums and looked on askubuntu in order to hide everything but Power Off and User logout from the userMenu but i did not find anything. I could'nt find a file or something containing ...
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lost right as administator
I have 12.04 freshly installed in my laptop. Recently I lost my rights as administrator. Hereare the problems:
1. unable to do updates from Update Manager (though no problem if I do it from terminal).
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1answer
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Logout scripts: not completed on shutdown, reboot
I'm trying to do some stuff at logout, and the task can take up to 5 minutes to complete.
If the user chooses Power off or Reboot directly, the script is killed before completion. If the user just ...
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1answer
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How to add Shutdown button to LXPanel and make it work?
I cannot seem to be able to add a shutdown button to my LXPanel. In /usr/share/applications there is a Shutdown (lubuntu-logout.desktop) containing the line Exec=lubuntu-logout but it would not run.
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Working with logout dialog box - text error
I am having a problem with the shutdown dialog box for Ubuntu 12.04. If I am logged in as any user and press shutdown, I see the box with the question 'Are you sure..." and its usual options. ...
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Shut down/log out takes multiple attempts to work
The title says it all really. I'll select "shut down" from the system menu and nothing will happen. The desktop stays up and operating. I'll wait a few minutes and then select "shut down" again. I do ...
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Why does my screen blank out for the duration of the Grub boot menu?
Upon booting, when I should see the GRUB menu, my monitor simply says: "No optimum mode. Recommended mode: 1600*1200". If I wait for a short while, Ubuntu starts to boot and it reaches the desktop.
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Logout/Shutdown taking very long, how to find the problem?
Some months now, it's taking very long to logout/shutdown/reboot my ubuntu box.
it doesn't happen with a fresh profile
it still takes ages even when i close all running programs first (foreground ...
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1answer
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How to invoke the Shutdown dialog in Docky under Lubuntu 12.04
I want to create a button in Docky equivalent to the Shutdown button in LXpanel. I have found that I can create a .desktop file which runs lubuntu-logout and this does the trick. But when I try to ...
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“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: ...
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I lost my shutdown sound
I lost both my startup and shutdown sounds. I restored the startup sound adding it to Startup programs, but I don't know how to restore my shudown sound. I checked if the sound file is in ...
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1answer
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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.
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1answer
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No action when shutdown pressed
My system: Ubuntu 11.10 latest updates with custom gtk3 theme
This is the output of .xsession-errors:
WARN 2012-01-15 21:44:04 glib.glib-gobject :0 invalid uninstantiatable type (null)' in cast ...
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ubuntu 11.10 freezes when shutting down [closed]
I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed on INSPIRON N5030. When I try to shutdown/restart from user login menu, it freezes and after a while it shows the user login menu again. This happens only if i have ...
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4answers
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Ubuntu 11.10 logs off when clicking shutdown
As the title says: when I click Shutdown from the menu it logs off. When I click shutdown from the log-in menu it does nothing. I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10. I can force it to shutdown by ...
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2answers
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Is there a fix for the won't-restart won't-reboot won't-logout bug in 11.10 [closed]
Since I upgraded to 11.10, neither the "shutdown" (for shutdown or restart) nor the "logout" options in the upper-right-corner menu work. They simply do nothing.
While waiting for Ubuntu to release a ...
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1answer
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Clicking logout and/or shutdown does nothing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does nothing happen when I click “Shutdown” from the “shutdown…” dialog?
As a newbie to Ubuntu 11.10, recently I am facing a problem ...
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3answers
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No logout/power-off option in Unity's power cog menu
After upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10, I don't have a logout/power-off option in the upper right menu. Is there a way to add it?
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1answer
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How to fix desktop reloading during logout/shutdown/restart after upgrading to 11.10?
Since I've upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), I'm facing a strange problem each time I logout/shutdown/restart :
As usual, Unity's launcher, global menu, desktop items and desktop ...
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1answer
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shutdown button disappears when logging in
recently installed the oneiric ocelot and its awesome,but one fine time i logged out of it and when i logged in the shutdown button disappears,when i upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 got a error message ...
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The “power cog” has disappeared [closed]
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1. The "power cog" (the button at the top right corner of the screen) seems to have disappeared. I am not sure what caused that because it was there when I installed 11.10 ...
