Need to SHUTDOWN twice to shutoff machine

**fester225** · August 25th, 2009

Sometime in the last two weeks, my shutdown button in Jaunty (9.04) started requiring that I press it twice to get the machine to turn off. I've been keeping up with the system upgrades.

Does anybody know how to make the shutdown button work the first time again?

**pilpi** · February 28th, 2011

Still experiencing this in 10.04 LTS. In the menu that is in the panel at the top of the screen, I select Shut Down..., but at the first time it does nothing. Only at the second time it closes all programs and shuts down the system successfully.

**MiThRaZoR** · April 6th, 2011

And having this same problem in 10.10. Any help would be appreciated.

**Unneoetech** · April 7th, 2011

+1 here in 10.10

**andrew.46** · April 7th, 2011

Does it work correctly from the commandline perhaps? Something like:

Code:

sudo shutdown -h now

**agent8131** · August 9th, 2011

I've also encountered this bug on multiple systems and versions now. It must be some program I've installed or setting I've changed but I have no idea what it could be. But since it's been persistent I thought I'd try to find some information. So far no luck.

UPDATE:

Also, this is true for "restart" as well. Need to click it twice to restart.