Still experiencing this with Lucid daily live (built on 2010.02.13) -
fully patched as of 2010.02.19, with the following caveats...

1) An active VTY session using the same account as used for the GDM
login will *not* stop shutdown.  The VTY is simply crushed during
shutdown.

2) An active VTY session with a different active login (e.g. an "sudo
su") will prompt for credentials, but results in the behavior described
in the original post (i.e. X session is killed).

3) A terminal window via Gnome (even a terminal window with an active
"sudo su" login) will *not* stop shutdown.

While I am ambivalent as to the correct handling of extra logins via
Gnome (e.g. terminal "sudo su") I feel pretty strongly about VTY logins.
Any VTY login, either same user or different user (e.g. via "sudo su"),
should prompt the Gnome user requesting the shutdown for authorization
to proceed.  A user sophisticated enough to initiate a VTY login can
cleanly take care of the issue when notified of multiple logins on
shutdown.  I think there is a case to be made for consistent action with
Gnome terminal logins as well (specifically terminals logged in as an
alternate user) but I *do* want my desktop to shutdown when requested,
without jumping through hoops.  Opinions on this will vary I'm sure.  I
have not tested this via telnet, ssh, etc - only from the VTYs

*However*, the killing of the X session on cancel remains a serious
problem in any scenario.

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Consolekit / Policykit interaction with indicator-applet-session produces 
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459705
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