Hi, New poster here.drooly wrote:this is unexpected behavior for a normal pc/lxde installation.
i guess the answer to your problem lies with "preinstalled" and "beagle bone black".
I recently installed Debian 7.5 Wheeze (stable) configured for LXDE on one of my laptops.
The other instance of a Debian derivatives (Mint, originally configured for Cinnamon) that I installed LXDE on would only respond to the LXDE "Logout" button for me.
LXDE shutdown via its menu on the recent install of Debian Stable functioned without problem until I moved it to Debian Testing (altering /etc/apt/sources.list and executing apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade). When I did that the problem of LXDE only logging out (when I wished to shut the system down) returned.
LXDE now, as in earlier instances, appears to exit to the Debian login shell.
As a short term solution (possibly permanent) I created a script (sudo shutdown -h now) and put the script in my system's path.
Dropping to shell and executing sdn (the name I gave to the script) shuts my system down in something like 9 seconds now.
I'd like to use LXDE's 'Shutdown' function but I've not been able to find information on the net about how to do that under the circumstances I've encountered.