On 27 Sep 2014 08:56, "Florian Pelz" <pelzflorian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, it seems to still be broken in 3.14. I have had no issues without > switching, but now that I tried it: > - - The first time I "switched users" to myself, GNOME froze in the > activities when I tried to open a terminal (because I had forgotten to > give the new test user a password). I switched to a virtual console > and did a reboot. > - - The second time I clicked the "Switch User" button I wanted to check > how many virtual terminals were open. It froze completely (except for > standby nothing worked) when I switched terminals, although maybe > that's because of the Intel driver. I did a non-clean poweroff. > - - The third time I actually switched users. I could not switch back > anymore from the log-in screen of the test user. When I tried the > log-in-as-different-user button the screen was only gray with a > pointer. I had to manually Ctrl+Alt+F2, which gave me the test user's > log-in screen again. After repeating this for a while it froze and I > rebooted. journalctl shows gdm-password repeatedly complaining that > > Sep 27 08:32:39 floriannotebook gdm-password][1433]: > pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): conversation failed > Sep 27 08:32:39 floriannotebook gdm-password][1433]: > pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): auth could not identify password for [archie] > Sep 27 08:32:39 floriannotebook gdm-password][1433]: gkr-pam: no > password is available for user > > even though archie has a password; I also could log-in as archie. I > did not see anything with shadow opacity in the journal though. > > So I think what you mean is still broken. Hi Florian, Thank you for taking the time to report your problems. This is very useful for me. I'll postpone the upgrade until I have time to investigate the issues... and if I can't fix them, at least I can prepare to switch from Gnome. I am quite baffled by the way switch user functionality seem to be almost untested in Gnome releases. Thank again, Lorenzo
