Comment 3 for bug 250009

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