Comment 54 for bug 119308

This won't shut down bug cropped up on Feisty in the middle of February on the early builds just after a whole load of stuff from Debian got dumped on Ubuntu, as far as I can see replacing good code with defective code. Not that I can perceive that fast, but it seems to me that the "power off" signal is now much shorter than it had been.

It hasn't been fixed on Feisty, or Gutsy, or Hardy Alpha. Whatever developer is responsible hasn't been motivated yet. The Edgy code certainly worked so they do have a fix if they wanted to use it.

The temporary workaround I described on 2007-08-23 has to be applied with each install. I don't expect hardly any "ordinary desktop user" to know about or apply such a fix.

As I remember I did poke around on Feisty and saw that the code that did "power off" was different and larger than it had been for Dapper, Edgy, and early Feisty.

Don't hold your breath.

Jerry