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I was trying to shut down my 2011.12 raspberry pie. I am brand new to it and probably don’t have a clue what I’m doing. I saw a place online that said hit Ctrl X followed by y at the prompt. When I hit control X on my desktop icons disappeared!? Did I mess up?

Additional info has been requested, such as OS and GUI I’m using. I do not know how to get that info. There are no menu or command bars on top of desktop view. I’m at a loss on how to provide more details or clarity. And, I’m having sone difficulty navigating around in this site to view answers or advice.

Ron
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  • Does it work if you remove the power and then power up again? – joan Feb 12 '23 at 08:28
  • Yes. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and the icons are back and all seems like it was. – Ron Feb 12 '23 at 08:35
  • Sorry Millways, stupid auto word changed what I typed and I didn’t catch it. I meant Raspberry Pi of course. – Ron Feb 12 '23 at 15:39
  • @Ron what is preventing you from correcting it? – jsotola Feb 12 '23 at 18:40
  • If you seriously want help you need to provide some information. Start with lsb_release -irdc and uname -a rather than meaningless "2011.12 raspberry pi" – Milliways Feb 12 '23 at 23:26
  • I want to provide the needed info I just don’t know how to get it. Is the lsb… something I type into terminal? Tried and it said command not found – Ron Feb 13 '23 at 17:33
  • I did manage safe shutdown using sudo shutdown now recommended by one responder. The GUI has no shutdown option I can find. – Ron Feb 13 '23 at 17:35

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If you are using a GUI there should be a shutdown option off one of the main menus.

If you are using a terminal use

sudo shutdown

or if you want to reboot

sudo reboot

joan
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