I've lost my shutdown button

[onaridge]

I've lost my shutdown button. I think it disappeared after an update of which there were quite a few lately. I have been using ctrl Alt Del. Is that safe to use? How do I get that button back?

[j388m]

You could add another type of shutdown button. Right-click on the bar and select Add to Panel... browse for the shutdown panel.

This sometimes happens to me. Although, it appears every few days... Strange!

[MooPi]

Lets check to see if you can shut down by other means. In terminal try

gksudo 'shutdown -r now'

This should reboot your computer and show that shutdown is working correctly.

[Putnam11]

You could reset the toolbars if you haven't made any changes you don't want to go through again.
In terminal:

gconftool-2 --shutdown
rm -rf~/.gconf/apps/panel
pkill gnome-panel

After you enter those lines into terminal, the panels should disappear for a few seconds then come back with their default settings. Hope this helps!

[efflandt]

There was a space missing after -rf in that line, should be:

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

[MooPi]

This should correct the issue. In terminal again,

sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-session

Then right click on the upper toolbar and select Add to Panel> Choose indicator applet session.

[onaridge]

Tried adding the button but that is just a shortcut to the ctrl alt del method. Tried the sudo apt-get and got this: "indicator-applet-session is already the newest version"

Don't want to reset my panel as there is a lot of stuff in it.

So ctrl alt del isn't a good idea?

[MooPi]

Is the indicator applet available for the panel if you right click and Add to Panel?

[onaridge]

Moopi yes but it doesn't work the same way.

[ventrical]

Tried adding the button but that is just a shortcut to the ctrl alt del method. Tried the sudo apt-get and got this: "indicator-applet-session is already the newest version"

Don't want to reset my panel as there is a lot of stuff in it.

So ctrl alt del isn't a good idea?

Yep... Mine has been going off and on using Maveric Meerkat but works great with 10.04.

I used install from menu and started another thread for now. Looks like a bug or somthing.