Added consolekit to the affected packages because I believe this is the
package responsible (maybe with policykit?) for denying shut down or
restart based on who's logged in.
** Also affects: consolekit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082211
Title:
restart impossible when a remote ssh session is running
Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
(assigning to lightdm, although it's broader than that. Not clear
which component is to blame exactly).
Let X be a laptop running ubuntu 12.10. It's an x86-64 cpu for that
matter, but no one cares.
Assume an ssh server is running on X, and someone is logged in via ssh
from another machine Y to machine X.
Now if X is showing a lightdm login screen, there is no way the
``restart'' button (from the top-right menu) can work. It is simply
ignored. There is no message either.
If some user is logged on X, and he opens up the top-right menu and goes to
``restart'', one of two things may happen.
- If the remote session is under this very user, then the session is
killed, and the computer restarts.
- If the remote session is under another user (root, for the situation I
tried), then the user's session is nuked, but the computer does not restart,
and returns back to the lightdm login screen.
I find this quite irritating. Ssh sessions to my laptop may happen.
When I have physical access to it, I would like to be able to
restart/shut down the machine without having to either do a dirty
shutdown (5s press) or hunt manually for ssh session and kill -9 them,
or ctrl-alt-f1, root login, and reboot.
I would conceive it if someone considers it's ''dangerous'' to kill
incoming ssh sessions. Not that I share this opinion, but I imagine it
may exist. If so, would it be possible, please, to have a dialog box
like ``yes, I mean it'' if the system decides it's perhaps unwise to
proceed to reboot ?
Best,
E.
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