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the act of stopping & starting a process, or rebooting an entire PC.

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Command equivalent on restarting explorer.exe in Windows

Is there command in Ubuntu that is equivalent on restarting explorer.exe in Windows?
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reboot ubuntu server 14 gracefully?

So I have a ubuntu server that has two tmux session that are running in the background and a few other applications on the background. Is there a way to create a scrip that would gracefully exit the process on tmux (excample Cntrl C) and shutdown…
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What's the difference between "restart X" and "/etc/init.d/X restart"?

I normally use this command to restart my daemons(e.g. vsftpd): $sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart Early today I noticed it said that I can try restart(8) utility. I did: $sudo restart vsftpd It worked. But when I tried to restart my apache2: $sudo…
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Ubuntu start is showing a dump message

I am using Ubuntu 16.0 for my development work on my desktop and laptop both. I am facing an issue on both system since yesterday on restart. I see the error dump as shown in screenshot. I tried multiple restarts to my system but I am still seeing…
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restart does not work

I click on restart on the top menu, but the system only shut down. I have to manually to push power button to restart the machine. Is it normal behaviour for Ubuntu or I need to check my configuration? Your help and information is great…
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Ubuntu restarts nightly at 12:00 EST. Why?

Title says it all really. But every night, unless I'm actively using it, my computer restarts, and every time, at midnight. I was wondering if their is anything I can do to stop it, or to find out what's actually causing it, or any help in…
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Laptop restarts sometimes when I move the lid

I have a 2006 Acer Aspire 5630 running Ubuntu 11.04. recently it started to have these symptoms: Random restarts Restarts whenever I move the lid forward or backward by one inch. Restarts the most when I perform a cold power on Sometimes it runs…
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I can't install Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS alongside windows 7 system restarts

I can't install Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS because system restarts as I choose to install alongside windows 7 and press continue till then everything goes fine. I tried many times but I didn't get success. Please help as soon as possible.
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Can't shutdown/restart linux

This started yesterday, I'm dual booting win7 and Ubuntu but when I'm shutting down/restarting Ubuntu to switch OS I only get to the log-out screen. I can turn the computer off with the power button but I would like to be able to do it the normal…
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Restart Button missing in 12.04 Ubuntu

Possible Duplicate: How do I get “restart” option in the shutdown menu in Unity? Can anyone possibly give me a solution to regain the restart button from the power button (top right corner button), so that I can instantly shut down without any…
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Ok No restart after 20.04 upgrade/install

No issues prior to install. X200 ThinkPad. No restart at end of install. Will start normally from power off. Restart hangs on ThinkPad logo. New to Linux and struggling to find a solution I can comprehend. Message prior to ThinkPad logo indicates…
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How to find reason for required restart?

Is there a way to understand WHY exactly my Ubuntu system wants a restart? I'm getting this message without much additional context in my banner on logging in over SSH: *** System restart required ***
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I have to press reset button twice for ubuntu to reboot

The button in the taskbar. I click it once to restart and the system acts like nothing happened (I do see steam system tray close). Then once I click it again, it immediately reboots. I have steam, Private Internet access, keepass, and nextcloud,…
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Ubuntu 18.04 fails to start, please see the error message in the picture, the computer will stop to work and only display that message

This is a photo of my screen whenever I push the power button to boot:
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Cannot restart Ubuntu

I was doing the following things on Ubuntu 16.04 and all of sudden Ubuntu get stuck. Delete boost library I installed in /usr/lib by using rm libboost*. Using cmake to rebuild point cloud library and got some errors complaining about a line in…
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