Wheezy 9-18-2012 shut down procedure

[scottnichols]

Hello
Is their a specific procedure to shutting down the Pi other then log out and then power off system. Should something else be done to save files or other.??
Thank you
Scott

[billb]

On the terminal:

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sudo halt

[scottnichols]

On the terminal:

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sudo halt

Thank you billb for the quick response
So it goes like this log out then input sudo hault at the prompt then I can power off correct?
Scott

[billb]

So it goes like this log out then input sudo hault at the prompt then I can power off correct?

Right -- you'll see the shutdown procedure going past and the screen will go blank, leaving only the red power led on the Pi -- then you can turn off the power.

[SN]

So it goes like this log out then input sudo hault at the prompt then I can power off correct?

Right -- you'll see the shutdown procedure going past and the screen will go blank, leaving only the red power led on the Pi -- then you can turn off the power.

erm no.
you can't do a sudo halt if you're not logged in
so when you're ready to shut down your pi, either from the console or remotely logged in over ssh/putty on a logged in session, then you type sudo halt <RETURN>
and you will be logged out a split second after you see some kind of shutdown message

[alexeames]

So it goes like this log out then input sudo hault at the prompt then I can power off correct?

Right -- you'll see the shutdown procedure going past and the screen will go blank, leaving only the red power led on the Pi -- then you can turn off the power.

erm no.
you can't do a sudo halt if you're not logged in
so when you're ready to shut down your pi, either from the console or remotely logged in over ssh/putty on a logged in session, then you type sudo halt <RETURN>
and you will be logged out a split second after you see some kind of shutdown message

I think he meant log out of LXDE, but I may be wrong.

[billb]

I think he meant log out of LXDE

Let's hope so.

[penguintutor]

That's one of the anomalies of running a GUI from a text based login.

LXDE (like other window managers) assumes you have come from a graphical login prompt. As such on most systems the Log Out normally returns you to the GUI login prompt (eg lightdm). That is not the case on the Raspberry Pi - where choosing log out from the Raspberry Pi returns you to the shell where you are still logged in.

If you configure the Raspberry Pi to "Boot to Graphical Desktop", then you get additional options to reboot / halt from within LXDE.