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[ubuntu] Shutdown fails, first time I try it

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Greetings, I'm not sure this is the most appropriate subcommunity for this posting, but here goes. Is there a Ubuntu One forum? Running 12.04 in the Ubuntu One desktop. When I try to shutdown using that option in the "gear" icon in the upper right corner, a small window appears claiming that I have an unknown process running. On clicking the "Shutdown Anyway" button that window disappears. On another click of the shutdown option in the gear menu and confirming, I now get a beep and the expected shutdown proceeds as expected. I cannot find what the unknown proce (Hardware)

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I don't know what i did or what happened?

but my ubuntu logs off on clicking shutdown...

running the shutdown or reboot command too doesn't shutdown....

how can i find the log?

all i know is there is a message saying ....

Power_table_CMD wait for 500 sec

and something similar

it gets stuck on Ubuntu Plymouth...

I have to long press the power button on my Laptop to shut it off

Hi,friends

I vividly remember the beep in 9.04 when I shutdown the computer

sudo shutdown -h now

and I will hear a "DI"/"Bee" sound

sudo shutdown -h +5

and I will hear 5 beeps every minute till it is power off

The beep is a great warning for me and I really need this feature

As the title says: when I click Shutdown from the menu it logs off. When I click shutdown from the log-in menu it does nothing. I'm using a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10. I can force it to shutdown by the command below, but I don't want to keep typing that whenever I want to shutdown my laptop.

sudo shutdown -h now

So it's probably processes which arn't closing.

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