Comment 21 for bug 445953

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clyde (clydetm) wrote : RE: [Bug 445953] Re: shutdown asks for password with only 1 user logged in

Thank You Clyde i did not get a chance to try it out it crash on me again i could not get into it so i got another cd of ubuntu for i had lots of trouble of it crashing before i am hoping for the best with this one ty

> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:25:10 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 445953] Re: shutdown asks for password with only 1 user logged in
>
> After upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic, I had this problem too. After
> eventually tracking down this bug report (took me a while to work out
> that mythtv was to blame!), I followed the instructions from comment
> #17, and that fixed the problem for me.
>
> --
> shutdown asks for password with only 1 user logged in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445953
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “consolekit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gdm
>
> from reading similar but not directly related bug reports, I don't know if this gdm or fast-user-switch, so since i'm not actually switching users I'm going with gdm.
>
> system upgraded from jaunty to karmic
> power prefs set to ask on power button press
> login 1 user
> press power button, click shutdown or wait for the timeout
> I get a prompt saying other users are logged in and need a password to shutdown.
> with this prompt active, I ctrl-alt-f1 and login and run "sudo who". this lists my account on tty1 and tt7, as it should, there are no other users logged in. this was not a problem on jaunty and as I understand it, I should not get this prompt.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Oct 7 21:06:40 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu14
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
> SourcePackage: gdm
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
> XsessionErrors:
> (gnome-settings-daemon:2889): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
> (gnome-settings-daemon:2889): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2943): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
> (nautilus:2919): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
> (nautilus:3038): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

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