[CS-FSLUG] Ubuntu won't shut down; and permission problem

[Davo Smith]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Dave & Ella McMullen<DavidM at hisfeet.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your help getting KDE up and running on my Ubuntu installation.
> I don't know if it is related or not, but now Ubuntu wont shut down
> completely. It shuts down to a black screen.  If I do CTRL-ALT-F2, I get a
> line that says "Login" but won't allow me to log in.  The only way I can
> shut it down seems to be with the off switch on the computer. That's my
> current "big" problem. Any suggestions?

Does 'sudo shutdown -P now' work?

Davo