Comment 14 for bug 213260

Everyone, just reinstall your initscripts from package manager.... this was my experience.

Problem at shutdown failure at deactivating Swap.... Solved on Karmic Ubuntu

After over a month, desperately searching the INTERNET launchpad and wherever the search engines took me. I found the solution for my system. It is so simple I'm surprised none of the experts of the many many forums ever suggested it.

I forced my system off, i restarted to bios and power it off from there, tried to modify scripts and power down using various commands, yet it all failed, the hours & hours wasted. After almost giving up & waiting for the next major update to Lucid Lynx meaning months to shutdown my system properly (silly but well what can i say)

OK to the point.... which really really doesn't make me happy.... because of its simplicity.

I decided to find some shutdown tools in the hope that an advanced tool might help... So I Entered Synaptic Package Manager

Did a search... typed shut (& of course the results had a few tools for shutting down) or you can search initscripts which is my solution

1. I right clicked (sweet no command line)
2. Mark for re-installation (sweet so simple)
3. Apply & let the task complete

4. Reboot / perhaps shutdown & your computer powers off itself (You must love technology that turns off when you tell it to)

As a new user, why of why didn't anyone say i could have reinstalled that, i was thinking how to reinstall shutdown but didn't know the term i needed. I'd be interested to know, does this solve a