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New login to existing session issue

Bug #26966 reported by Antti Ruokomäki
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Medium
Martin Bergner

Bug Description

# Overview Description:
 Using the New Login feature and trying to login back to existing session
doesn't work.

# Steps to Reproduce:
 1) Login.
 2) Applications -> System Tools -> New Login.
 3) Enter the same user and pass as in 1).
 4) Dialog pops up: "New login" or "Return to previous login/session" or "Abort
login"?
 5) Choose "Return to previous login/session".

# Actual Results:
 1a) In Themed Greeter:
  - Console mode login flashes and then a new graphical login screen appears.
 1b) In GTK Greeter:
  - Goes to Console mode login.
  - Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7 shows a new graphical login screen.

 2) 2nd try to login works, but doesn't inform anything about the previous
session. Apparently does a new login.

# Expected Results:
 It should return to the previous session.

# Additional Information:
 Ubuntu Breezy.

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Antti Ruokomäki (ilmari-ruokomaki) wrote :

Another related problem:

- 2 users are logged in on the same computer
- Applications -> System Tools -> New Login
- A window pops up which shows "user A has already a display open at display 0,
virtual terminal 7"
- I choose to open the existin displayg, but then the system goes to console mode

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Antti Ruokomäki (ilmari-ruokomaki) wrote :

Okay, I did a fresh Breezy install and set the newest updates available. Still
after trying to login to an existing session it goes to CLI.

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Martin Bergner (martin-bergner) wrote :

Hi, is this still an issue in Dapper or Edgy?

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James Howison (james-howison) wrote :

I'm finding the same issue (I think) in Edgy (6.10), on a basically brand new install (only added vmware and mythtv). with all updates applied.

The attempt to return to the in progress session produces a blank screen and jumping to another virtual tty and back produces a pulsating orange screen. Kind of a cool effect, but not what was expected.

Let me know if I can help with more info.

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Mike Dahlgren (dahlgren) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. However since this bug was last reported in Edgy with no updates, I was wondering if this issue is still outstanding?

 Thanks,
~ Mike

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Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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