Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-28 10:34, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:Nowadays, when I try to shutdown my system, I sometimes get this unhelpful dialog:http://imgur.com/tRv5S.pngIt complains about an unknown program that is not responding and wants to give me the "option" of waiting for it to finish. Is there any way to disable this dialog permanently? More than once I have left my machine thinking it would have shutdown only to find this annoying dialog a couple of hours later.Does anything malevolent happen if you click "Shutdown Anyway"?
Nothing. But all these days I am used to hitting ctrl+alt+del and pressing enter and the system would shutdown. Now, *sometimes* it throws up this dialog a few seconds after I initiate the shutdown and by that time, I would have left the desk. I would see it several hours later when I attempt to turn the computer on, only to realize that it has been wasting power all the while.
I could not find any setting in gconf-editor that appears related to this. Others seem to be having this problem too:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/313228 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486393Guess, I'll have to map ctrl-alt-del to 'sudo poweroff' to get rid of this, but I then it would become too easy to accidentally initiate shutdown.
Raj Kiran