I noticed I had a bunch of updates come through the other day that required a restart. When I went to restart it just takes me to a user login screen. In the lower right there are options to restart and shutdown. Neither of those buttons work, specifically, clicking on them does nothing. The only thing I can do is log back in.
From there I opened a terminal and did sudo shutdown -h now which returned command not found
I did whereis shutdown and it came back with /etc/shutdown.sh but that shell script just contains shutdown -h now.
It seems my shutdown binary is gone. I did sudo find -name shutdown and it came back with /home/dean/.kde/shutdown but that is a folder not a file.
What should I do?
If it goes far as halting, then it may be a problem with your hardware, since halting is actually telling the computer to shutdown, if it fails, then the computer must have failed to receive the message. Since it displays a black screen, we know it sended the request and since it has nothing to do, it just prints a black screen. It may be and can be a extremely high chance it is your hardware. Hope i answered your question.