[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Gavin Chester]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:55 +0900, jasonposavec at iinet.net.au wrote:
> Aside from not shutting down, I now seem to have to go through a
> 2-part process to shut my computer down rather just one before. I now
> have to log out as user, then shutdown from the login screen. Before
> upgrading it was a simple process just to shutdown from my user login.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this change after upgrading, and how can
> it be remidied.

I'm not using your distro, nor probably your desktop, but surely that's
a security feature on a OS that is inherently multi-user in order to
prevent inadvertently killing other user's sessions by shutting down?

Gavin.