Power Off: Another user is logged on

[Gareth Jones]

Is anyone else regularly being prompted for their password when shutting down their system, because “another user is logged on”? I’ve been seeing this quite frequently recently, although not every time. I’m the only one logged on (“who” on another virtual console confirms that), but it seems to happen after other users have been logged on, or I’ve run certain root-privilege programs, like yumex. I’m still trying to make a 100% reproducible test case, but it looks like a bug somewhere. This is the default GNOME Shell / GDM, in case that matters to anyone.

[hmaarrfk]

I get it too.

I do something. Logout, then try to power off from the GDM then it tells me that somebody else is logged on.

I couldn't find a good test for it either, so I shelved it for now.

[glennzo]

Yes, I get this prompt often also. Annoying ...

[jpollard]

Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

Is anyone else regularly being prompted for their password when shutting down their system, because “another user is logged on”? I’ve been seeing this quite frequently recently, although not every time. I’m the only one logged on (“who” on another virtual console confirms that), but it seems to happen after other users have been logged on, or I’ve run certain root-privilege programs, like yumex. I’m still trying to make a 100% reproducible test case, but it looks like a bug somewhere. This is the default GNOME Shell / GDM, in case that matters to anyone.

I find it is happening with gdm - the "ghost users" seem to be resolved activations via a login/logout and a dangling entry somewhere. Once it occurs it seems to hang around for a long time...

[John the train]

I'm getting it too, as I'm the only user on this machine I was wondering if it was connected with the fact that I have 2 e-maiil accounts set up in Thunderbird, and the system is ' seeing ' them as two users logged in, but I haven't tested that theory by logging on and NOT checking my e-mails yet.

[bob]

I thought it might have something to do with adding my username to the Administrator group during installation.

[nonamedotc]

I see that too, in my test VM installation. I do not have my username added to Admin though. This happens to me on an installation that is "as pure" as it gets - meaning, this system was installed using GNOME live CD and updated. No other program was installed. No shell extensions, rpmfusion, etc.

So yeah, very strange!

[mikee]

I usually shut down by typing "init 0" as root in a shell so I never see the error.

[bob]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890827

Trying the fix of
su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-197-1.fc18.2'

Seems to work!

[hmaarrfk]

Edit: Bob seems to have found the better bug report.

Seems like the issue is reported here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869576

Make some noise (by adding yourself to the CC list)

[Gareth Jones]

Thanks bob and hmaarrfk. I tried searching Bugzilla, but for whatever reason my search terms didn’t find those!

Originally Posted by bob

Trying the fix of
su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-197-1.fc18.2'

Seems to work!

Just installed that here too. I’ll report back later/tomorrow if I don’t see the error again (after rebooting of course).

[normski9]

Thanks to those who've done the donkey work. I was having the same problem too. Am trying the updated systemd.

[Gareth Jones]

Systemd-197-1.fc18.2 from updates-testing does seem to have fixed the issue.

[Gareth Jones]

I may have spoken too soon! It’s definitely less frequent now, but I’ve been asked for my password on a couple of poweroffs since yesterday…