Bug#634259: #634259 - gnome-session: stop-multiple-users dialog fails to clear screen

[Adam Borowski]

On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 01:59:20PM +0100, althaser wrote:
> Hey Adam,
> 
> this is an old bug.
> 
> Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer gnome-session
> version like 3.4.2.1-4 or 3.8.4-3 ?

I'm afraid I don't use Gnome[3] anymore, and installing it to test would
take too much work because of hard-dependency on systemd gnome in unstable
already has.  Installing a fresh virtual machine would take quite a bit of
time, too, so I'm sorry but I can't help test this bug right now.

If I recall correctly, reproducing it back in 2011 (on Gnome 2) was a matter
of trying to shutdown Gnome over 20ish times, with policykit forbidding the
shutdown due to it believing there is another user logged on¹.  Thus, the
bug took quite an effort to reproduce.  With the extent of changes Gnome
underwent since then, I believe this report can be dropped unless someone
else can test it.


¹ Those days, policykit had a race that _sometimes_ caused bogus failures
if you had a root shell in a terminal in the session that was being torn
down.  Of course, you can force a legitimate failure by ssh-ing in from
another machine, ie, having an actual other user.

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