[ubuntu-za] Not shutting down normally, need terminal or manual switch off

[Jan Greeff]

Thanks Robin, this works fine. It also confirms my allegation or 
accusation that Ubuntu generates its own unique virus-like culture where 
one application disables another in an utterly confusing (perhaps to the 
uninitiated user) array of conflicts.

It is frustrating for a user who has other priorities than to play 
around with computer systems.

Kind regards,

Jan


On 12/07/2011 17:58, Robin Bownes wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 16:44 +0200, Peter Nel wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net 
>> <mailto:jan at verslank.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Peter, something else that puzzles me - my system hardly ever
>>     reboots or shuts down via the standard command, I need to go via
>>     the terminal or switch off manually. 
>>
>>
> Hi Jan,
>
> On your rebooting problem. Are you using OpenOffice or LibreOffice 
> with the panel QuickStarter? I've found that this quickstarter causes 
> this inability to reboot. The good news is that you have 2 choices: 
> Either don't use the quickstarter, or exit it before rebooting.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Robin
>>
>> Jan, 
>>
>>
>> I'm starting a new thread for this issue. 
>>
>>
>> Please, in future: 
>> - start new threads (subject) for new issues like this 
>> - CC the mailing list on replies so that: 
>>   1) everyone out there can benefit from the discussion (these mails 
>> are accessible via the web and indexed by search engines). 
>>       You can also do this by clicking "Reply to all" when you reply 
>> to mails, in stead of just "Reply" 
>>   2) other people can jump in with a solution that I don't know 
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help with this problem? 
>>
>>
>> I will look into it in the meantime.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Péter
>>
>>
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