Comment 123 for bug 468589

I think its worth placing this comment in the hope that anyone looking for an answer might consider this simple GUI solution.

Problem at shutdown failure at deactivating Swap.... Solved on Karmic Ubuntu

After over a month, desperately searching the INTERNET launchpad and wherever the search engines took me. I found the solution for my system. It is so simple I'm surprised none of the experts of the many many forums ever suggested it.

I forced my system off, i restarted to bios and power it off from there, tried to modify scripts and power down using various commands, yet it all failed, the hours & hours wasted. After almost giving up & waiting for the next major update to Lucid Lynx meaning months to shutdown my system properly (silly but well what can i say)

OK to the point.... which really really doesn't make me happy.... because of its simplicity.

I decided to find some shutdown tools in the hope that an advanced tool might help... So I Entered Synaptic Package Manager

Did a search... typed shut (& of course the results had a few tools for shutting down) or you can search initscripts which is my solution

1. I right clicked (sweet no command line)
2. Mark for re-installation (sweet so simple)
3. Apply & let the task complete

4. Reboot / perhaps shutdown & your computer powers off itself (You must love technology that turns off when you tell it to)

As a new user, why of why didn't anyone say i could have reinstalled that, i was thinking how to reinstall shutdown but didn't know the term i needed. I'd be interested to know, does this solve a