Choosing Shutdown or Restart just logs me out in Ubuntu 9.04!

[motang]

Nope, not yet.

[Giblet5]

Yes, if you leave applications running, you'll be logged out instead of shutting down or restarting.

This is clearly a bug.

Workaround:
Close all of your terminals, web browsers, IM clients, email apps, etc., then it will shut down.

[motang]

Oh hmm...I wonder what programs were left open, I shall pay more attention to it next time. Thanks.

[azLinux]

I have this issue right after logging in so it can't be an "open programs". This seems like a very strange issue to me that shouldn't be in an OS as mature as Ubuntu. Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong?

Behavior:
At the log in screen neither "Restart" nor "Shutdown" menu items do anything.

After logging in and going to restart or shutdown I get logged out but just go back to the log in screen.

please help!

[Gargoulf]

I have this issue right after logging in so it can't be an "open programs". This seems like a very strange issue to me that shouldn't be in an OS as mature as Ubuntu. Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong?

Behavior:
At the log in screen neither "Restart" nor "Shutdown" menu items do anything.

After logging in and going to restart or shutdown I get logged out but just go back to the log in screen.

please help!

Same pb with ubuntu 10.04. restart or shutdown just logs me out!!!

[Gibbs]

Have you tried to shut down from the terminal?

sudo shutdown -h now

That's what I did when I had this problem once. After the next boot I could shutdown normally.