Agreed, David. Following Wes' suggest, I did shut down anyway ... and everything worked fine. Thanks for the advice (I needed to get kicked off the fence).
Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings 503-852-0010 On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:27 AM, David Fleck <[email protected]> wrote: > Another vote for "Shutdown Anyway". Again, not that it helps you much, > sorry. > > But it is an occasion for me to complain about yet another instance of > what this old UNIX crank sees as the creeping Windows-ization of Linux, at > least in popular newbie-oriented distros like Ubuntu. There comes a point > when hiding complexity from the user becomes harmful, and cryptic system > messages like this strike me as a good example. > > *What* program is still running? > What PID? > What lockfile? > > Come on, Ubuntu, would giving up those bits of information really be so > hard? > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, wes wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > David Fleck > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
