I think that what's happening is that the second shutdown causes the first one to be cancelled (rc6 gets stopped on the shutdown event)
In theory the second shutdown should then work normally, however cancelling the first shutdown *does not* change the runlevel (it leaves it in 6) ... this means that /etc/init.d/rc doesn't bother running any of the rc6 scripts because there's no reason to. Thus the system stalls, and you get a root shell. -- Ctl+Alt+Del twice at tty console login gives root access https://launchpad.net/bugs/63852 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
