Won't Shut Down?

Asked Jul 24 '16 at 04:23

Active Jul 24 '16 at 16:48

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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and when I select the shutdown option from the top-right corners drop down, instead of giving me an option to shutdown or hibernate, it only lets me lock and log out. I haven't made any major installations or changes to anything recently that could have messed that up.

The output of gnome-session-quit --power-off is

** (gnome-session-quit:2707): WARNING **: Failed to call Shutdown: Logout has been locked down

edited Jul 24 '16 at 16:48

asked Jul 24 '16 at 04:23

James

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Have you installed a dock? – Nuwan Thisara Jul 24 '16 at 04:34
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whats happening if you do it from terminal ? And whats the output gnome-session-quit --power-off and after executing this command it will debug in terminal and provide us the output. – Raja G Jul 24 '16 at 04:36
@Nuwan not sure what a dock is, so I assume not. – James Jul 24 '16 at 16:45
@Raja the output has been added to the question. Thank you! – James Jul 24 '16 at 16:47
which shutdown and what is the permission given to shutdown binary. – Raja G Jul 24 '16 at 17:12
@Raja I'm not sure I understand your question... Can you explain what you are wanting to know? – James Jul 24 '16 at 21:27
@James I meant a thing like this. Sorry for not explaining it. I asked about it because of this bug. – Nuwan Thisara Jul 24 '16 at 23:19
@Nuwan I see. I have not installed any docks. – James Jul 25 '16 at 01:59
I m sorry, I mean in terminal type which shutdown and provide us the output and check permissions given to that binary. – Raja G Jul 25 '16 at 04:06
@Raja How do I do that? I haven't used Bash in a long time... – James Jul 25 '16 at 17:43
open your terminal and type "which shutdown" and try to execute shutdown command from terminal http://askubuntu.com/questions/187071/how-do-i-shut-down-or-reboot-from-a-terminal – Raja G Jul 26 '16 at 07:10
So that worked. But I still can't shutdown the way I'm supposed to be able to. – James Jul 27 '16 at 00:30

Won't Shut Down?

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