[plug] ubuntu 8.10 won't shutdown

[Jason Posavec]

Tomasz Grzegurzko 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 think it's because of the logout/shutdown button changes. You may
> need to remove the log out applet you now have an add a shutdown
> applet. When you upgrade from 8.04->8.10 there's an informational
> thingy that tells you that and allows you to change over to the newer
> applets, but if you missed it then you can always do it by re-adding
> the appropriate applet.
>
> Tomasz
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Thanks heaps, Tomasz, that solved it perfectly. I wonder why they 
arbitrarily decided to change the shutdown button to a user logout 
between these particular versions as opposed to any other. Oh well.

Jason