This bug affects me as well. I cannot shutdown from the menus, most of the time I return to the login screen. Then from the login screen if I try to shutdown, then there is an ugly Gnome confirmation dialog which asks 'Do you want to shutdown or restart ?'. Pressing any of the buttons does nothing.
I tried 'sudo halt' and it hang the computer on the shutdown. I looked also in .xsessionerror, and there are those errors. My user has sudo rights, so I don't understand where the Authorization error is coming from. (nautilus:2737): Eel-WARNING **: "unique eel_ref_str" hash table still has 4 elements at quit time (keys above) (nautilus:2737): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 3 elements at quit time gnome-session[2661]: WARNING: Unable to stop system: Authorization is required Do: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880240 Title: ubuntu 11.10 : the system doesn't turn off if "sudo halt" is given To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/880240/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
