Ubuntu
consolekit package

  1. Bug #287715
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 287715

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Richard Decal (crypdick) wrote : Re: Trying to shut down or restart falsely suggests others are logged in

i also experience this. I mysteriously started to get prompted for a root password each time I wanted to log out. I suspect it might be a cron job that I added a few days ago. Running w in terminal gives

richard@gR0iDin:~$ w
 00:45:29 up 9:56, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 1.97, 1.68
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
richard tty7 :0 14:49 9:56 28:25m 3.66s /usr/bin/gnome-
richard pts/0 :0.0 00:39 0.00s 0.50s 0.04s w

My work around is to go into system > administration > authentication, then org > freedesktop > hal > powermanagement > shut down system with multiple users and changed from needed authorization to simply "yes".

on a side note, the dialogue that makes me put in my root password has weird wording. screenshot attached