For questions regarding shutting down and powering off.
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How do I modify the power options?
When I press the power button a dialog opens, but I want to shutdown the system without receiving "Do you really really want to shutdown?". How can I choose a direct shutdown action on a pressed power ...
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New computer hangs on shutdown/reboot, how to troubleshoot?
My system is working perfectly but it freezes during shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate: All windows and the menu bar disappear but the desktop wallpaper remains. It doesn't even show the shutdown ...
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Shutdown does not power off computer
I recently upgraded from ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. If it makes any difference, My system is a dell inspiron 1520. I encounter a problem whenever i shutdown or restart. It kills all running processes (as ...
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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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1answer
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Lost power during upgrade, how do I recover?
I was attempting to update my 11.10 install to 12.04beta. During the install step, I accidentally lost power to my laptop (the power cable came unplugged) and it shut down. Whenever I go to boot now, ...
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How can I make shutdown not require admin password?
If more than one person is logged in on my computer, Ubuntu requires super user authentication when shutting down the computer. How can I make it so that any user can shutdown the computer without ...
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How to disable shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate?
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop PC with GNOME.
How can I fully disable the reboot/shutdown/suspend/hibernate functions in GNOME or even with root? So that the root gives out the "reboot" or ...
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2answers
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One click shutdown Ubuntu and load into alternative bootup
I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7.
My GRUB bootloader defaults to Ubuntu.
I mainly use Ubuntu, but I occasionally need to bootup Windows to do a few things.
If I need to do ...
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Execute script before shutting down
When I shut down my computer I want to show some pending tasks that I have to do before leaving the office... I did a local application to manage those tasks, basically I just want to run a command, ...
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I can't shut down nor reboot without console
After update from 11.04 to 11.10 an wired conduct appears in my machine:
Shutdown GUI methods (including reboot) cause only a log off, and in the login screen, shutdown nor reboot options do anything ...
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3answers
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Difference between menu shutdown and 'shutdown -h now'
What is the difference between the shutdown menu item and shutdown -h now?
The former sometimes hangs up my laptop on Ubuntu 11.10.
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Why can't I restart/shutdown?
When I shutdown/restart get a black (shell-like) full-screen with some large text saying stuff like:
ubuntu 10.10 [129.171175] Restarting system. eco
nds ... [OK]
...
Unmounting weak filesystems ... ...
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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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Stuck on reboot and shutdown
I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I love it. However I have one problem- I am unable to shutdown or reboot properly.
When I shutdown my laptop (Acer Aspire 5560) it hangs on the 5 dots and ...
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Difference between “halt” and “shutdown now”?
Ubuntu one remote uses sudo -S -p '' halt for shutdown and does not work to the end.
leaveing monitor on with message
will now halt
[22225.11163] halted
What is the difference between sudo ...
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How do I restart /shutdown from a terminal?
How to shutdown the Ubuntu installed system and restart it by using terminal ?
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Not been able to Shut Down 13.04
After installing Ubuntu 13.04 (not upgrading to it, I did a "clean install" removing the older one), I'm not been able to shutdown the system.
After clicking the Shut Down button the desktop ...
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How to find out which “Unknown” program is still running and preventing shutdown?
I get the window below occasionally on shutdown. Is there any way to find out what the "Unknown" program is? Perhaps find the path of the executable?
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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 ...
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Shut down computer from keyboard
Is there a keyboard shortcut available to shutdown the computer?
I know I can use the Power button, but I would like to be able to it from the keyboard.
If such a shortcut does not exist already, ...
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2answers
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How to stop turning off sequence when power manager says that battery is too low and want to power down?
According to this thread I can disable this thing altogether but this battery-critical-power-down not always happens. Is there a way or terminal command that can stop the power manager shutting down ...
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How to see what's going on during shutdown
Since a few weeks, Ubuntu freezes almost everytime when I shut it down.
I know it because the shutdown animation stops and nothing is responsive: Ctrl+Alt+Del or AltGr+Syst+reisub don't make any ...
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Why do I get a reboot instead of a shutdown?
After two days of installation, strangely my Ubuntu machine is restarting instead of shutdown from both desktop GUI and command line.
sudo shutdown -h now
sudo halt (doesn't shutdown, instead freezes ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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How can I shutdown my PC when the system is idle?
I am using Ubutnu 12.04 LTS. Now I am here to know that, is there any script/application I can use to shutdown my Ubuntu when my system is IDLE for 10 Minutes or so?
I have already gone through this ...
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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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2answers
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Shutdown taking a lot of time
Whenever I shutdown in my Ubuntu 11.10 box, the icons are changing to the default GNOME icons and it is taking a lot of time to shutdown. What can I do to fix this?
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Shutdown stuck at Ubuntu logo
I've installed my Ubuntu11.10 yesterday. I updated it and now when i go to shutdown it stucks at Ubuntu logo (the one with the white small balls). I waited 20 mins and nothing, i always have to ...
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What is the shutdown command in 13.04?
I want to create a shutdown icon for the launcher in 13.04. In former versions of Ubuntu I used this desktop file and put it in the launcher:
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How to shut down the computer after a task has been completed?
I usually start a download before I go to school.
Which command should I use to automatically make the necessary saves and turn off the computer after a particular task has been completed?
(Say, ...
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How do I shut down without the confirmation prompt?
Are you sure you want to close all
programs and shut down the computer?
When I click shut down I want to shut down! :) This message bugs me. How to avoid this message?
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How can I safely shutdown/reboot/logout KDE from the command line?
I am not talking about shutdown and reboot commands. I want to initiate the same routine from command line that would be performed if I would press the logout/reboot/shutdown button inside the KDE ...
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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)
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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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How to shutdown/restart/suspend … without authentication or confirmation?
I am looking for a terminal command to shutdown without having to write down my password and without installing any extra programs.
As when clicking the shutdown button, why it is not asking me for ...
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How to execute script on shutdown?
I want to execute script before I shutdown my machine that writes date to a file (so I do know what time I finish working).
How to do it?
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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 ...
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overheating and shutdown problems when adobe flash runs?
I'm a new user of UBUNTU and using a Dell latitude D630. When I browse to site that have some flash animation (mostly advertisements), the temperature of cores increase dramatically (I check with ...
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Eclipse IDE does not start
My computer suddenly shut down due to power failure, while I was working on an Android project using my Eclipse Indigo IDE.
Now, if I start Eclipse, only an empty message dialog (see screen shot) ...
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Why does nothing happen when I click “Shutdown” from the “shutdown…” dialog?
I've been through all questions with the 'Shutdown' tag on this site - but this is different.
I choose "Shutdown..." from the session menu.
I then click "Shutdown" on the dialog that appears.
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When Shutting down or hibernating it just goes to the login screen [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I can’t shut down nor reboot without console
Title says all. When I choose shut down or hibernate if my computer has been on a while, it just goes to the log-in screen. ...
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Console text appears on shutdown
I updated to 10.10 from 10.04 -however not with a clean install but with online update. Since then at shutdown some console texts appear (next to the red spot representing the shutdown steps). Im ...
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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 ...
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2answers
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can't shut down or restart while others are logged in [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I make shutdown not require admin password?
When I'm logged in on my own account and try to do Restart or Shutdown from the "Power" menu, while others are also ...
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Transmission shutdown script for multiple torrents?
I have written a shutdown script for transmission. Transmission calls the script after a torrent download finishes. The script runs perfectly on my machine (Ubuntu 11.04 & 12.04).
#!/bin/bash
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Can't mount filesystems and computer won't shut down
I've done a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 and ran the recommended upgrades. Two things are not working properly.
My windows drives, USB drives, external hard disk cannot be mounted. The below error ...
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Delay shutdown until UbuntuOne has finished synchronizing
when logging out to a different user, shutting down, or restarting the machine sometimes I can get this message
some programs are still running
program list
waiting for programs ...
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Netbook performs hard shutdown without warning on low battery power
My Asus EEE netbook performs a hard shutdown when it reaches low battery power, without giving any warning - i.e. the power just goes off, without any shutdown process. I can't find anything in the ...
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Where is the shutdown log?
I am trying to debug a hang during shutdown and I don't find where the messages that I see during shutdown are being stored. They aren't in /var/log/syslog
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Why does Ubuntu 11.10 start and shut down so slowly?
Ubuntu's always been very fast on my computer. I have 3GB RAM, and previous versions booted in under 40s and shut down in under 5s. Most recently, Natty took 40s to boot and only 4s to shut down. ...
