Can't logout when autologin is set

Bug #1061993 reported by Tim Lunn
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm
Fix Released
Medium
gdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Jeremy Bícha

Bug Description

Once autologin has been configured, the user can no longer log out (i.e. to change session), since logging out just causes autologin to fire again.

The expected behaviour for gdm, is for autologin to only fire on the first login.

Tags: patch

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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tags: added: patch
Changed in gdm:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gdm - 3.6.0-0ubuntu4

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gdm (3.6.0-0ubuntu4) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/patches
    - add 3 upstream patches to fix logout when autologin enabled.
      (LP: #1061993)
      - ubuntu_ensure_dirs.patch
      - ubuntu_slave-only-set-up-autologin.patch
      - ubuntu_daemon_autologin_tracking.patch
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Sun, 07 Oct 2012 07:40:28 +1100

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in gdm:
status: New → Fix Released
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