[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Arie Hol]

On 7 Nov 2008 at 9:04, Adam Hewitt wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I am running 8.10 and when I go to shutdown whilst logged in, I get a
> Gnome security message pop up and it requires me to enter my password
> to continue to shutdown (which it does perfectly well). The popup
> mentions something along the lines of "This system may have other
> users logged in, if you really wish to continue shutting down then
> enter your password below"
> 

What happens if you issue the command :

shutdown -H now

?????????

Regards Arie
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