User Shutdown, Logout, etc...

[jmadero]

Hi All,

My normal day to day user can't shutdown, restart, logout, etc...It just doesn't do anything at all when I try. This wasn't the case three days ago, just fresh installed and seeing the same problem (so it must be some setting saved in my home folder which wasn't wiped). Any ideas?

[Bemk]

I've seen a similar issue, and to me the solution was to provide the everyday user sudo access, and all of a sudden they could shut down the system without logging out first to shut down through the login manager.

[Manko10]

You should give your user shutdown permissions via PolicyKit.
But of course you can also shutdown with ACPI events by pressing the power button on your PC.

[Spyderkid]

Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a problem with holding the power button unlike windows. also you'll probally need to give the user sudo privalleges.

[Manko10]

Also Windows ist able to shut down correctly when pressing the power button shortly.

[jmadero]

Thanks for all of this. I spent the last week trying to figure out the issue and am still clueless.

The problem isn't consistent, my user DOES belong to SUDO group. Upon startup it seems like I can always shutdown as my user, it's once I spend some time doing things on my system that I lose the ability to shutdown. It doesn't appear to be a specific piece of software causing the issue and I haven't installed any beta/alpha things in the past few months. Any other advice?