[ubuntu-za] System won't shut down

[Daniël Louw]

Hello Bill (am I talking to the username or the real person now?)

What happens when you type 'sudo halt' in terminal (without quotes)?

My guess is you must have somewhere removed your privelege as normal user to
shut the system down or something... I can't think of any other possible
cause.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> A very strange problem. Everything seems to be working fine on my
> 10.04 system except that suddenly I cannot shut down. I click on the
> little button on the top right and say "Shut Down" and it asks me if I
> really want to shut down and I say yes and it just carries on and
> ignores me. I get the same thing if I select "Log Out". And I mean it
> really ignores me - the system just carries on running with no
> indication that I had said anything at all.
>
> If I select "Switch from bill" (bill being my user name) I get the log
> in screen which has a its own "Shut Down" button (bottom right now)
> and, if I go there, I can shut down properly. If I select  "bill2"
> (bill2 being a test user on my machine) from the top right button, I
> can log into bill2 happily and can shut down from there (it asks me
> for my password for user name bill of course). The "Restart" works
> fine.
>
> Strange one! What can be inhibiting bill from shutting down? I think
> this started a couple of days ago after I ran an update, but am not
> really sure. I have also been trying to install a printer (HP CP1025)
> at the same time and might have tweaked the wrong thing somewhere by
> mistake while I had root privileges, but I don't think that I did
> anything ...
>
> Bill (person Bill not username bill)
>
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