Shutdown not unmounting drive cleanly

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 at 1:44pm, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

:On 1/17/2006 12:59 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
:> Hello:
:> 
:> I've been using the session manager's shutdown function without problems 
:> for a while, but the last two times, on rebooting I'm told that my drive 
:> was not shut down cleanly and fsck is invoked.  I shut down my last 
:> session manually and rebooted cleanly, so it seems that 
:> xfsm-shutdown-helper is what's causing the problem.  Any thoughts? 
:> (Debian testing, xfce 4.2).
:
:This has nothing to do with Xfce.  xfsm-shutdown-helper just verifies
:that you have permission to shut the system down (or reboot it).  The
:'shutdown' command is actually used to halt or reboot the system.  If
:it's not shutting down cleanly, it's a problem with Debian, not Xfce.

Well, now it's not reproducible, so maybe the problem has sorted itself 
out!

Patrick