User switching is broken

[Greg Swift]

2012/3/12 Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com>

> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 23:04 +0100, nodata wrote:
> > User switching between different users on X is broken.
> >
> > It's not just broken for me, everyone I have asked has experienced the
> > same problem:
> >
> > Clicking "Switch user" will often or sometimes lead to a hung screen.
> > The switcher doesn't show the correct virtual terminal. Killing the
> > switcher with ctrl+alt+backspace is one solution, the alternative is
> > manually switching virtual consoles.
>
> I don't had any problem, but also don't switch much.
> what Fedora Release ?
> what X11 loads ? (cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|  grep drivers)
> what it is yours graphic card ?
> what is your windows manager ?
> you use kdm or gdm or other ?
>
>
I had the exact same experience.  my wife and I switch a lot.  I changed
from nouveau to nvidia and my problem _mostly_ went away. Its only happened
to me once since, so I assumed that was the problem/fix.  Unfortunately,
I've trained the wife on the ctrl+alt+bksp so now I don't know how often
she has the issue.

Release: I had the issue on f16 (I skipped 15, so can not speak to that)
Drivers pre-nvidia:
[499406.597] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[499406.598] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[499406.598] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[499406.648] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so

Drivers post-nvidia:
[   216.734] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse'
or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[   218.200] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[   218.300] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

Video card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce G210]
(rev a2)

wm: gnome-shell

gdm

the bug I found was: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739361

but i don't know if that is the one OP was referring to.
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