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Ubuntu 16.04 keyboard shortcut Alt+F4 to get the suspend/shutdown/restart menu?
I would like to set a conditional keyboard shortcut (Alt+F4) which shows the suspend/shutdown/restart menu only if it is pressed when the desktop has the focus, otherwise just close the active window.
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Kali Linux deletes everything on shutdown
I just downloaded Kali for VirtualBox. And I want to make some changes to it. But i figured out, that when i shut it down, it deletes everything, unless I 'save state'. But when it is in 'saved state' ...
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My ASUS laptop shuts down unexpectedly when unplugged even when battery charge is over 50%
My ASUS laptop shut down unexpectedly when unplugged. Even with battery charge over 50%.
The OS installed is Linux, and it is set to shut-down at a critical percentage of 5%.
It doesn't look like an ...
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linux shutdown hang with wifi cifs mounts
Since fedora 15 (and now with 16) it seems that wireless clients take a long while to shutdown when they have network filesystems mounted at shutdown time.
I've pushed out a cifs mount via puppet, ...
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systemd: intercepting poweroff, shutdown, reboot and alert us we still have KVM QEMU guest(s) running
I want to interrupt a poweroff or reboot if KVM/QEMU Guests are still running.
It should work regardless whether shutdown/reboot is requested from XFCE, or from terminal. I already have a script that ...
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Logout, Shutdown and reboot freezes Debian 10 Buster fresh install, while for Stretch it worked fine
Fresh install from net-installer amd64, KDE as Window Manager, unencrypterd boot, encrypted LVM over LUKS2, and a Win10 as dual boot.
All works fine so far, except whenever I try to logout from user,...
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/var, /var/log on separate partition fails to umount on shutdown, how to debug
As the title says, I have /var and /var/log on separate partitions.
On shutdown, I get the error, that umount /var/log, and later umount /var failed.
My question is:
How to debug this issue?
If ...
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"Timed out starting Power-Off" 30 minutes after "Reached target Shutdown", computer takes 30 minutes to power off
When I shut down my computer running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, it takes seconds to reach the final Reached target Shutdown message as shown on the console. However, after this message has been shown, it ...
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Will enabling the debug shell affect the systemd shutdown sequence?
I'm troubleshooting an issue where CentOS stops at "Reached target Shutdown" when I issue a reboot command. In other words the system does not reboot but remains as is after printing the mentioned ...
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Is it possible to autostart a VMware virtual machine in background as a Linux service in Ubuntu, and shut it down elegantly when Ubuntu shuts down?
The host is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I would like my virtual machine to start with Ubuntu in the background. I also hope the virtual machine can be shut down elegantly upon Windows shuts down.
Is there any ...
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rpc shutdown command from linux to windows server 2012 - connection refused
I am needing to restart a windows server from a linux server.
The error i get is: (i have replaced ip address with xx )
Could not connect to server xx.xx.xx.xx
Connection failed: ...
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Debian shutdown takes a long time (RAID/crypt related)
I'm running Debian Jessie and recently my shutdown has been taking a long time. When I
sudo shutdown -h now
I'm sent to a blank screen except for a blinking cursor which sits for ~1 minute. It then ...
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Why rebooting the system takes longer than a shutdown in fedora?
I'm a fedora (19/ x86-64) user. When I power off the system, it always takes about 3 to 4 seconds to shut down. But whenever I reboot the system, it takes the system much longer (about 30 seconds or ...
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Debian Wheezy crackling sound on shutdown
Crackling sound is coming out of my internal and external speakers as well when I shutdown or reboot my HP 8540w notebook.
lspci | grep Aud
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 ...
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My Dell laptop running Ubuntu Linux 11.10 hangs on reboot but not shutdown. How do I diagnose this?
My Dell laptop running Ubuntu Linux 11.10 hangs reliably while shutting down for a reboot, but when I shutdown, it will complete successfully. How do I diagnose this? I don't know what log files I ...
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