Comment 8 for bug 880240
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| crjackson (crjackson) wrote Re: ubuntu 11.10 : the system doesn't turn off if "sudo halt" is given | #8 |
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I assume this is the same bug that's affecting 8 of my systems, and several other people on the ubuntu forums. If I select to shutdown from the normal GUI menu, I get a popup conformation and after selecting my choice, it throws me back to the desktop as though I never issued a shutdown request, OR it starts to shutdown and hangs with unity gone but a grayed/shaded desktop view, a black screen, or a login screen.
My workaround was to issue a dbus shutdown and create a launcher for the Dash bar. This is no solution, but it's a usable workaround.
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=