[Help Request] Power button is not functioning

[Cosmo.]

Undo the renaming. Again at first delete the newly created folders, than rename, than log off and back in.

We will check now, if there is some wrong ownership in your account.
Mark the following command and press ctrl-C

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find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

open a terminal and press ctrl-shift-V
Mark the complete result inclusive the command with the mouse and press ctrl-shift-C
In the forum click the Code-button above the text box, than press ctrl-v.

Report in case, that there is no output.

[wtlhk]

Undo the renaming. Again at first delete the newly created folders, than rename, than log off and back in.

We will check now, if there is some wrong ownership in your account.
Mark the following command and press ctrl-C

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find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

open a terminal and press ctrl-shift-V
Mark the complete result inclusive the command with the mouse and press ctrl-shift-C
In the forum click the Code-button above the text box, than press ctrl-v.

Report in case, that there is no output.

wtlhk@Hello ~ $ find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f
/home/wtlhk/.local/share/font-manager/Collections.xml
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Group
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Installtid
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Sha1header
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Obsoletename
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Triggername
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/.dbenv.lock
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Name
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Dirnames
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Sigmd5
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Packages
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/__db.001
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/__db.003
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Basenames
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Requirename
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Providename
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/Conflictname
/home/wtlhk/.rpmdb/__db.002
find: `/home/wtlhk/.config/enchant': Permission denied
/home/wtlhk/.config/linuxmint/mintupdate.ignored
/home/wtlhk/.config/linuxmint/mintUpdate.conf
/home/wtlhk/.config/fontgroups.xml
/home/wtlhk/.face
/home/wtlhk/.gnome2/accels/gedit
/home/wtlhk/.gnome2/gedit/gedit-2

[Cosmo.]

The next surprise. Not the fact, that my suspicion about wrong ownership was correct. But the fact to find the .rpmdb folder in your home. This sounds, that you used rpm-packages to install software.

Correcting the ownership is rather easy:
Mark the following command completely and make sure, that you do not miss any sign, than press ctrl-C

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find /home/$SUDO_USER ! -user $SUDO_USER -exec chown $SUDO_USER:$SUDO_USER '{}' \;

Open a terminal and enter

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sudo -i

Now still in the same terminal press ctrl-shift-V
Run this command and wait until it has finished.
Press twice ctrl-d
Immediately log off and back into your account.

But I cannot tell you, what those rpm-packages might have done in your system. So even if with the correction of the ownership the original problem should be solved, I consider your system as a case for a new installation.

[wtlhk]

The next surprise. Not the fact, that my suspicion about wrong ownership was correct. But the fact to find the .rpmdb folder in your home. This sounds, that you used rpm-packages to install software.

Correcting the ownership is rather easy:
Mark the following command completely and make sure, that you do not miss any sign, than press ctrl-C

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find /home/$SUDO_USER ! -user $SUDO_USER -exec chown $SUDO_USER:$SUDO_USER '{}' \;

Open a terminal and enter

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sudo -i

Now still in the same terminal press ctrl-shift-V
Run this command and wait until it has finished.
Press twice ctrl-d
Immediately log off and back into your account.

But I cannot tell you, what those rpm-packages might have done in your system. So even if with the correction of the ownership the original problem should be solved, I consider your system as a case for a new installation.

I read carefully and did what you said, and unfortunately the power button still not working...

And I don't know how did I install those packages since I only update from repository and install from apt-get.

[Cosmo.]

The repositories do not provide rpm-packages. No idea, what has happened there.

I could tell you a way out of the original problem, but to be honest, it would be as if you would heal a painful, but harmless wound, if you know, that the patient has a serious illness. So my serious advice is to backup your data and start with a new installation.

[igor-tg]

Same problem here. Checked my /etc/systemd/logind.conf file and HandlePowerKey option was set as

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HandlePowerKey=ignore

Just changed to

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HandlePowerKey=poweroff

And it worked.

It's weird since I never changed such file. Seems It was set in that way by the install process.

[TooMuchTime]

You can try this.

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dpkg -l | grep acpid

You should get something similar to the following:

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ii  acpid   1:2.0.26-1ubuntu2   amd64

You can either uninstall acpid first:

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sudo apt-get uninstall acpid

or just install it.

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sudo apt-get install acpid