Re: Poweroff Re: Re: Solved Re: Zombie desktop artifact

"toma@debian10kdeHPnb:~$ shutdown -r now
bash: shutdown: command not found"

You need to run as "sudo" as it is not in your PATH for user: tom

JMH

On 8/14/19 10:38 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>
> Thanks, Jonathan,
>
> But apparently things have recently changed with the release of Buster.
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Del still gets you out of the desktop--if you happen to be
> still in the desktop--which in my case, I was not.  I believe that in
> my desperation I tried it, but to be honest, I can't clearly remember. 
>
> At any rate, the first article I happened to look at (the link below
> yours) claims that 'shutdown' is no longer with us:
>
> "Debian 10 has now fully switched to Systemd which means that the
> traditional commands to halt or reboot a system like 'shutdown -h now'
> or 'reboot' will not work anymore. ..."
>
> Tom
>
> toma@debian10kdeHPnb:~$ shutdown -r now
> bash: shutdown: command not found
>
> On 8/14/19 10:08 PM, Jonathan Haack wrote:
>>
>> You may want to consider the shutdown command, it can be configured
>> with much more than the legacy reboot and poweroff commands:
>>
> https://debian-administration.org/article/89/Shutting_down_your_Debian_machine_cleanly
>
>                   ^^Posted by Steve
> <https://debian-administration.org/users/Steve> on Fri 11 Feb 2005 at
> 13:33^^
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On 8/14/19 10:05 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep,  systemd.  This explains it:
>>>
>>> https://www.faqforge.com/linux/distributions/debian/how-to-shutdown-or-reboot-debian-10-buster/
>>>
>>> sudo systemctl poweroff
>>>
>>> sudo systemctl reboot
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/14/19 9:30 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>>>>
>>>> OK guys,
>>>>
>>>> I lucked out and stumbled on the fix for my artifact.  Turns out
>>>> the message on the screen can be removed with the same key
>>>> combinations as used to remove widgets *from the panel*, i.e.
>>>> 'Alt-D, R'.  I think.  Now I can't find where I saw that out of
>>>> context.  Anyway, having done that fixes the problem installing
>>>> one-click launchers to the panels too.
>>>>
>>>> I can go to bed happy tonight because *everything* I've set up is
>>>> now working correctly.  Definitely KDE Plasma and definitely not
>>>> Kubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> But I still need to figure out how to get terminal
>>>> shutdown/reboot/halt installed.  Back to all that excellent
>>>> documentation in the wikis and the desktop.  Must be in there
>>>> somewhere.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>> On 8/14/19 7:46 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>>>>> Hello NMGLUG,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a two-day old install of Debian 10 with KDE Plasma
>>>>> desktop ...
>>>>>
>>>>> *'ctrl-alt-esc' will kill Plasma (but leave application windows
>>>>> running, presumably because they run in different threads) but I
>>>>> don't yet know how to restart Plasma from the terminal, and for
>>>>> some reason there is no 'shutdown', 'reboot' or 'halt' command
>>>>> installed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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