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unity-greeter package

  1. Bug #903306
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 903306

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D. Hugh Redelmeier (hugh-mimosa) wrote :

I experience this bug in 11.10 + updates for AMD64. There are other sightings on the web:
 <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2011-December/032588.html>
 <https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=46554>

I don't know if this is a unity-greeter bug or a bug in acpid's /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

It looks to me as if /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh tries hard to find the X user to figure out what to do but that when unity-greeter is running there is no user. Mind you, /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh ends with "if all else fails, shutdown -h now".

Before unity-greeter, this wasn't a problem.

All-in-all, I'd guess that this is a unity-greeter bug.

Why do I care? Because sometimes my computer is headless and it is awkward to shut it down cleanly without the power button functioning as it should.