Cute, I can replicate this too. You have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del pretty quickly to make it happen -- and interestingly it just kills off the gettys, and not a running X server.
-- Ctl+Alt+Del twice at tty console login gives root access https://launchpad.net/bugs/63852 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
