shutdown goes to ubuntu password screen

[danbuter]

For Intrepid Ibex, when I click on shutdown, it starts to shutdown, then kicks into the Ubuntu login screen. It does not shut down.

edit: This also happens when I go into terminal and sudo shutdown. I can shutdown from the login screen, but the screen flashes red and black several seconds before finally shutting down.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

I have same thing. its expected to work if you System > shut down than it gives dialog with restart shutdown log out ect... you hit shut down or restart the gdm comes up and you have to shut down restart from there.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Changed it to ubuntu task since it is a gnome isue but not sure of exact package.
Also this happens to me as well so i marked it confirmed

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

I can confirm this bug, however, it is not a problem with gshutdown as was originally mentioned:
connor@lappy686-testing:~$ apt-cache policy gshutdown
gshutdown:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     0.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages

connor@lappy686-testing:~$ uname -a
Linux lappy686-testing 2.6.26-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Jun 19 15:51:43 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
connor@lappy686-testing:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Sorry, I was on an older kernel. Here is the updated (still with the shutdown problem):

connor@lappy686-testing:~$ uname -a
Linux lappy686-testing 2.6.26-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 18:39:53 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Richard Rickwood (rickwookie)]

This appears to have several knock-on effects to wherever gnome is instructed to shut down. For example:
System->Preferences->Power Management->General
   When the power button is pressed - Ask Me

Now when the power button is pressed it gives the logout/switch-user options and not the Hibernate/Restart/Shut-down options as expected.

[Fahim Abdun-Nur (fahim-a)]

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 250506 since that seems to have a higher profile/importance attached to it.