Thank you for the pieces of information: Please do the following to help us debugging your problem:
* Open a Terminal, (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) * Run sudo tail -f /var/log/acpid * Press the hotkey and you may see output such as received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001010" * Finish by pressing Ctrl-c * Please report the text that appears on pressing the power button Thank you -- both GPM and KDE don't check if we're already logging out interactively when processing power button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187151 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs