Bug#600706: gdm3: I can not get into my account if already open (steps to reproduce)

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Nov 1 06:48:52 UTC 2010


Le lundi 01 novembre 2010 à 13:29 +1100, Thomas R. a écrit : 
> User switching using gdm3 in Squeeze is essentially broken.
> 
> It's impossible to return to the first user's logged in session after 
> switching to another user in the normal way.

Known issue, it should be fixed soon.

> This suggests the problem is due to erroneously switching virtual 
> terminals after returning to a login session.

No, actually this is caused by a variable not being reinitialized. The
display you just used for login believes it should respawn while it
should not.

Cheers,
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