Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work
Hello.
In using Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce, I have been unable to get the GUI
shutdown and restart functionalities to work.
The screen ends up grey, with the system hanged, resulting in (when
that happens), an abortion shutdown - holding down the power switch
for the 12 seconds (or whatever), which results in (amongst other
things), on next bootup, fsck-ing of the HDD, due to a "not properly
shutdown" scenario.
So, the only way that the system can be orderly shutdown or rebooted,
is to go to a console (<CTRL><ALT<F1>), log in as superuser, then run
"shutdown -<h|r> now".
I believe that someone else has previously raised this problem, on
this list, but I could not find the applicable message(s).
I have tried to use the list archive Search facility linked from
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
but, that searches all of the Debian lists, and apparently can not
search the archive for a single list, and so I could not easily find
the applicable message(s) through that method, and I had gone back a
thoousand or so messages, in my stored messages from the list, trying
to find the previous, related, message(s).
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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