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
rich...@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 ** Attachment added: "stoping the" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20721099/stoping%20the -- Trying to shut down or restart falsely suggests others are logged in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287715 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
