Re: Can't reboot nor shutdown

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:26:32 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Can't help you with the error message but to shutdown, have you tried > the SysRq key? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key for > details. > > This often gives you all kinds of ways of getting around an otherwise > frozen system

Re: Can't reboot nor shutdown

2014-09-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/09/14 10:49 PM, B wrote: Hi list, on my latptop (lightdm + XFCE) I can't reboot nor shutdown properly; each command ends with a black screen with a blinking cursor at top left and that's all. I waited several times more than 5 minutes, hoping some timeout was there, but nope

Can't reboot nor shutdown

2014-09-02 Thread Bzzzz
Hi list, on my latptop (lightdm + XFCE) I can't reboot nor shutdown properly; each command ends with a black screen with a blinking cursor at top left and that's all. I waited several times more than 5 minutes, hoping some timeout was there, but nope; stopping with the power button