New Login doesn't work since /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver is missing with lightdm

Bug #807090 reported by Micah Gersten
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
High
Michael Terry
xscreensaver (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

The New Login button on the locked screen doesn't work in Oneiric Xubuntu since it calls this binary which lightdm doesn't provide.

ii lightdm 0.4.2-0ubuntu2 Display Manager
ii xscreensaver 5.14-1ubuntu1 Automatic screensaver for X

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

This may be related to bug 803499.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in xscreensaver (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Micah Gersten (micahg)
description: updated
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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

An idea would be for lightdm to provide a gdmflexiserver wrapper like kde-compat does. While we wait for something more generic freedesktop-like to replace gdmflexiserver.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Sounds like a good plan Tormod!

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

so is this the reason why user-switching in general doesn't work at all with lightdm?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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