Bug#563956: Race condition?

[Tony Houghton]

I think there's a race condition somewhere causing this, and my guess is
it has something to do with gdm respawning.

3 different things tend to happen:

1. My desktop disappears to be replaced by the console with the usual
   shutdown messages.

2. The console is shown briefly, but is quickly replaced by gdm's login
   screen, which stays there; shutdown has been aborted.

3. gdm reappears rather like in case (2), but it quickly disappears and
   shutdown continues

Shutdown failure happens most often on the slowest of my PCs, an
Athlon64 3000+, running 32-bit Debian. It happened only once or twice on
my main PC, which runs 64-bit Debian and was using a 2.16GHz Core2Duo,
but since upgrading to a 2.6GHz Athlon II X4 I don't think I've seen
this PC exhibit the fault at all.

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