[Bug 880240] Re: ubuntu 11.10 : the system doesn't turn off if "sudo halt" is given

[Ludovic Claude]

This bug affects me as well.
I cannot shutdown from the menus, most of the time I return to the login screen. Then from the login screen if I try to shutdown, then there is an ugly Gnome confirmation dialog which asks 'Do you want to shutdown or restart ?'. Pressing any of the buttons does nothing.

I tried  'sudo halt' and it hang the computer on the shutdown.
I looked also in .xsessionerror, and there are those errors. My user has sudo rights, so I don't understand where the Authorization error is coming from.

(nautilus:2737): Eel-WARNING **: "unique eel_ref_str" hash table still
has 4 elements at quit time (keys above)

(nautilus:2737): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 3 elements at quit time
gnome-session[2661]: WARNING: Unable to stop system: Authorization is required
Do: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

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Title:
  ubuntu 11.10 : the system doesn't turn off if "sudo halt" is given

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since I upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 the system doesn't turn off at
  the end of halt procedure if it's called via commandline (local or
  remote shell) . At some point of halt procedure the system freezes and
  all I can do is turning off pc via physical power button and halting
  it using GUI or via "sudo shutdown -h now" , these two methods work
  flawlessly.

   I have this problem on both x86_64 and x86. Anyway if I shut down the
  pc using ligthdm or unity the system is turned off properly.

  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10
  Linux travelmate 3.0.0-13-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 17 20:18:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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