Without getting into the specifics, and I realize that this may not be all that helpful to you, but I thought it may provide a little perspective:
if this screen popped up on my laptop, I would click Shutdown Anyway without hesitation or a second thought. -wes On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been running Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop about half a year, generally > without problem, but now I have a potential problem - a question at least. > With the idea of avoiding a problem. > > When I try to shut down, after having closed all the apps (that I'm aware > of), I hit the command to do so then get a window saying: > > "A program is still running." > Unknown - not responding > "Waiting for the program to finish. Interrupting the program may cause you > to lose work." > > There are three button options available - lock screen; cancel; shut down > anyway. > > To this point - this has been going on for some days - I've been responding > with "cancel," but eventually I'll need to shut down, one way or another. > (Besides this glitch, the computer has been working fine.) I've tried > checking for odd processes (that might usefully be killed) in the system > monitor, but nothing jumps out at me. > > I've also seen a reference to Firefox causing something like this to > happen, but I don't use Firefox - and have removed it from the launcher > (though I haven't disinstalled it). > > I suppose I could "shut down anyway," but I don't know what the > consequences may be - and a Google search for the error message pulled up a > couple of vague references to file corruption, which is worrisome. Or I > could try something like the SysRq+ALT+REISUB shutdown, but again, I'm not > sure if that's a totally safe way under the circumstances. > > Any thoughts, suggestions? > > Randy Stapilus > www.ridenbaugh.com > Northwest politics and public affairs > WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings > 503-852-0010 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
