@Doug: I doubt we want shutdown to log out all active sessions without asking for confirmation first, it would be too easy to misclick and take sessions down that you didn't notice were running and that you didn't want to stop in this case
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/855556 Title: "Restart" and "Shut Down" don't work if anyone else is logged in Status in The Session Menu: New Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: gnome-session 3.1.91-0ubuntu2, lightdm 0.9.7-0ubuntu1, indicator- session 0.3.5.1-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1. Start up the computer. 2. At the login screen, choose "Restart", and confirm it. 3. Log in. 4. From the device menu, choose "Restart", and confirm it. 5. Log in again. 6. Switch to a guest session. 7. Switch back to your user account. 8. From the device menu, choose "Restart", and confirm it. 9. From the login screen, choose "Restart", and confirm it. What happens: 2. The computer restarts. 4. The computer restarts. 8. Ubuntu returns to the login screen. 9. Nothing at all. What should happen: 2. The computer restarts. 4. The computer restarts. 8. The computer restarts. 9. The computer restarts. The same problem happens with "Shut Down". At a terminal, "sudo reboot" and "sudo shutdown" work as expected. See also bug 838792, where "Restart" logs out with no-one else logged in (that bug does not occur for me). While testing this bug I also triggered bug 740382. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/855556/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
