On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:42:59 -0600 g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: > another thought, are you trying to run 'shutdown' from a terminal > or is it within xfce? > > if while in xfce, could be way xfce is working. > It is a known random problem, not everyone will get it. Been there done that. Also on Xfce. ___ Regards, Frank www.frankly3d.com