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the power down button disappears when i click it

Asked by crazyfro

i run heron and recently ive been starting to have a problem with the (for lack of a better word) shut off button found on the top right corner of the screen. i havnt done anything to dramatic to my OS, the worse that i have done with this one is tweak the compiz fusion settings (which brings no issue on my other computers running ubuntu 8.04). basicly, the problem is that when i decide to power down for the night, and click the icon on the top right corner of the screen, the whole panel just disappears and then nothing, i can still run everything regularly (if i can still navigate to it), and the only way to shut off is to manually hold down the button on my laptop.

p.s: i dont know if this would help but the issue started after i restarted my computer after an update. right now all i can do is do regular checks on the update manager and hope :(

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Max Schukin (schukin) said : 		#1

Hi,

Try this:
1. Go to System => Administration => Login Window.
2. Open the Local tab.
3. Make sure that Show Actions Menu is checked.

Hope this helps.

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crazyfro (albert-chu) said : 		#2

one more thing that i forgot to add, when i open firefox now, all my favorites and other data is gone, and when i try to open the addons menu, the whole window closes

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#3

So you can get updates without any errors?

I'm wondering if the lest updates failed to complete..

Try in a terminal window

sudp dpkg --configure -a

Another interesting test would be to right-click on the top toolbar and choose "Add to Panel" and then add the Power icon again.
See if the new one has the same behaviour.

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