Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown bug?

2012-03-30 Thread John Oliver
Yeah, it did used to notify people that there are more users logged in. If two or more users were logged in, a dialogue box used to appear requesting authentication to continue shutting down. If you clicked cancel on that dialogue, you used to be brought back to gdm. I haven't really used

[ubuntu-uk] Shutdown bug?

2012-03-29 Thread Andres Muniz
Hi all, I do not know if this is a bug nor do i know how to call it to report it. And maybe it was reported. If I am logged in with one user(a) i then choose to open another user(b) without logging out of user(a). When logged in as (b) and tap shutdown button on my computer and the message

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown bug?

2012-03-29 Thread Daniel Case
Hi Andres, I have the same problem, so I will be monitoring this thread if anyone has any answers. What I did as a workaround was create a keyboard shortcut with gksudo shutdown -h now and it does the trick, just press the key combination, type my password and the system is on its way to a clean

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown bug?

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
I think it's by design. It used to shutdown regardless when users were logged in, but this isn't desirable for multi-user systems. Now, it wouldn't matter whether you tried to shutdown as the admin user or the normal user, as I understand it. It will only log you out until no more users are logged