Mathieu Pillard wrote: > I had this problem once when the lookback interface wasn't up for some > reason. Just in case it's your problem here, here is a quick list of things > to check: > * ping 127.0.0.1 > * ping yourhostname > * ifconfig -a | grep "UP LOOPBACK RUNNING" > > If any of these fail, or don't show a result, you have a problem. Check > your /etc/hosts file (is your hostname correctly setup there if it needs > to?), check your /etc/network/interfaces (got a "lo" entry? is it set to > "auto" and "inet loopback" ?) > > Also, another symptom will be that stracing "gnome-session-save --kill" > will block on some network stuff with 127.0.0.1 or something similar. > > Thanks for the response.
The problem seems to be mythfrontend. If that program is running then shutdown fails. If I kill mythfrontend first it all works properly. I've downloaded the sourcecode to mythfrontend to try and see if it does anything unusual, but no joy so far. Phil. -- cannot restart, logout,shutdown https://launchpad.net/bugs/51227 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
