Can't shutdown or logout

[Colin Law]

On 24 June 2010 17:37, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone met this one?
>
> My laptop is functioning perfectly, with a desktop spread across its
> internal & an external monitor. (Mint 9, which is to say, Ubuntu
> 10.04. Suspend or hibernate and resume doesn't work but I can live
> with that.)
>
> The only snag is, it completely ignores me when I try to log out or
> shut down. Nothing happens, no error, zero.
>
> Any pointers at where to look for more info? Does the GNOME shell log
> stuff like this anywhere I can look at?

It won't necessarily help get the normal shutdown working, but if you
open a terminal you can force a shutdown by
sudo shutdown -h now

Colin