(Solved)Shutdown/Reboot

[zbreaker]

Hmmmmm..

After dist-upgrade a week or two ago I cannot shutdown/reboot from the normal right click option.
I "think" it was after an upgrade when apt mentioned "systemd" as a new package. Log out works but clicking on
either shutdown or reboot does nothing. Currently accomplishing both via terminal ( eg: sudo shutdown -h now) but it would
be nice to get back to normal, Any insights appreciated. All else running flawlessly.

[VastOne]

Follow this thread and see if it resolves it...

[VastOne]

Did that help at all zbreaker?

[zbreaker]

At work atm.

Going to give it a shot later tonight hopefully. From what I read in the post it looks like the 2 cases are pretty analogous.

Always helps to "search" first  ...but I was having a hectic evening. Will let you know. Thanks as always!

[VastOne]

No issues man... we all have to deal with chaos once in a while.. 

I just hope it gets you solved and want to know also what the heck is happening to have apt remove systemd

I have not seen anything like this at all and it troubles me

[PackRat]

Were python and dbus also updated? Might want to run the vsido-exit script in a terminal and see if it throws a python or gtk error at you.

[VastOne]

^ Both of those have recently been updated... my issue is why some folks see it and not others

[hakerdefo]

zbreaker, it will also be interesting to try the following commands from terminal,

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sudo systemctl reboot
or

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sudo systemctl poweroff
Output from this commands will provide some useful information.
Cheers!!!

[zbreaker]

^
Gotcha....will try.

[zbreaker]

From  VO code..... also hackerdefo your code produces the desired result, but problem persists.

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zbreaker@vsido32box:~$ se systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 204-10
  Candidate: 204-10
  Version table:
     208-1 0
          1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages
*** 204-10 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
zbreaker@vsido32box:~$


[zbreaker]

Late breaking news.....

After a apt-get install -f & reboot, shutdown/restart menu working as intended. But, system takes an inordinate amount of time to initially
boot up about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes! Screen dialog hangs at systems fsck of sdb4 (root) and all disk activity seems to stop. Then after awhile
sequence resumes and I'm at login. I've 3 hd's in this box - 1TB, 500G & 500G. No probs previously. Will tackle this later in the weekend.
I love a good challenge

[VastOne]

Good to hear...

When you get a chance, please post your fstab so that can be analyzed... your long boot issue is most likely related to a setting there

Cheers

[zbreaker]

fstab
Gone most of Saturday. get back to troubleshooting on Sunday.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb4 / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /media/sdb3 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc7 /media/sdc7 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc5 /media/sdc5 ext4 defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /home ext4 relatime 0 0
/dev/ none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0




[jedi]

Comment (#) out the swap line in the fstab and your boot time should go back to normal...

[zbreaker]

jedi, worked like a charm....u da man

Many thanks to all who helped. This little distro and community are truly top shelf.