I have the same experience after upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 . It is impossible to shutdown the system through gnome, but it works with gdm.
I did recognize that behavior two times, after upgrading a fresh install in virtualbox and on a normal computer. Phil -- Computer does not power off when choosing Shut Down from Shut Down panel button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251374 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to meta-gnome2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs