shutting down in gnome-shell

calanor · #1 26th March 2011, 06:29 PM

I was browsing through the desktop help when I found this helpful tip. When you click your name in the right upper corner in gnome-shell and press alt the suspend option changes to shutdown.
I haven't been able to successfully shut down from there, however it does bring a shut down dialog. I thought this might help.

***DBelton*** · #2 27th March 2011, 01:09 AM

I have been trying that little trick myself, and it continuously locks up on me as well. However, I have been having my system lock up on shutdown nearly every time, no matter how I try to shut it down.

I believe this is a bug in systemd, and possibly when that bug gets fixed, then the shutdown from gnome-shell will work properly.

ryptyde · #3 27th March 2011, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by DBelton

I have been trying that little trick myself, and it continuously locks up on me as well. However, I have been having my system lock up on shutdown nearly every time, no matter how I try to shut it down.

I believe this is a bug in systemd, and possibly when that bug gets fixed, then the shutdown from gnome-shell will work properly.

Or instead of selecting suspend select logout then go to the top right icon and select shutdown from there. A few extra steps but it works for me along with using "shutdown -h now" from the terminal.

phil

***Dan*** · #4 27th March 2011, 01:57 AM

[CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL] seems to be fairly foolproof right now. But tomorrow ... who knows?! <..

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***DBelton*** · #5 27th March 2011, 02:57 AM

I've been having to use the "big button" reboot on mine the past few days

Ulli · #6 27th March 2011, 09:22 AM

Shutdown (by pressing alt in the G3 user menu) works great here, plus it was the fastest shutdown I ever had on a Unixoid system. About a second or so.

***DBelton*** · #7 27th March 2011, 09:40 AM

my shutdown was faster!

actually, though.. I think I've gotten my shutdown issues resolved (hopefully) so maybe I won't have to use the big button again

tuxor · #8 27th March 2011, 10:40 AM

yes, the shutdown/reboot problems are solved. I also suffered from freezes on shutdown/reboot and since the latest updates those problems are entirely gone.

calanor · #9 27th March 2011, 11:11 AM

Menu shutdown started working

***Dan*** · #10 27th March 2011, 02:51 PM

Hmmmm. As of 0200 local, it was still an issue here even after updating.

***DBelton*** · #11 27th March 2011, 03:48 PM

mod's Dan's computer to put a remote power button on it located beside his mouse

Mine is still a little flakey on the shutdown here as well. I had it to hang just a few minutes ago

I thought it had been fixed, but then it hung. Not sure if it was due to the same problem or not, though. systemd is kinda cryptic on error message (if you even get them)

Ulli · #12 27th March 2011, 09:42 PM

By the way: I usually never turn my PC off, I prefer hibernate (not suspend; hibernate).

Is this completely gone now?

Even Windows still offers it at least as an option (if you click that arrow next to the shutdown button). While F15 is fast enough that you can boot it fresh every time, I'd be really happy if I could still hibernate it (and preferably from the desktop, not the command line, so it'd disconnect+reconnect after the restart).

***glennzo*** · #13 27th March 2011, 09:53 PM

Doesn't work for me. My solution? CTRL/ALT/F2, log in as root and run shutdown -h now or reboot.

***Dan*** · #14 27th March 2011, 10:20 PM

Maybe you're just not holding your mouth right. I gave mine the Mark IV stinkeye about two hours ago, and it's been working fine ever since. The only thing I did was install the GIMP, Inkscape, Libre-Office and Gnome Unit converter. Go figure. <..

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***Dan*** · #15 27th March 2011, 11:00 PM

Whoops! Check that. Spoke too soon. Shutdown just failed.