Ubuntu
lightdm package

guest session ignores session type selection

Bug #1285132 reported by Björn Michaelsen
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Light Display Manager
Fix Released
High
Robert Ancell
Light Display Manager 1.9.10
1.8
Fix Released
High
Robert Ancell
Light Display Manager 1.8.8
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Robert Ancell
Saucy
Won't Fix
High
Robert Ancell
Trusty
Fix Released
High
Robert Ancell

Bug Description

Lightdm seems to ignore the selected session type for guest sessions on trusty.

to reproduce:
0/ install gnome-fallback-session
1/ go to guest account
2/ select session type "gnome (metacity)"
3/ click button to open session

expected behavior:
gnome session opens

actual behavior:
unity session opens

See original description

Related branches

lp://staging/~robert-ancell/lightdm/guest-session-type
Robert Ancell: Approve
Diff: 171 lines (+65/-6)
7 files modified
src/seat.c (+7/-6)
tests/Makefile.am (+5/-0)
tests/scripts/login-guest-pick-session.conf (+45/-0)
tests/test-login-gobject-guest-pick-session (+2/-0)
tests/test-login-python-guest-pick-session (+2/-0)
tests/test-login-qt4-guest-pick-session (+2/-0)
tests/test-login-qt5-guest-pick-session (+2/-0)
lp://staging/lightdm/1.8
Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report, I noticed that as well. Robert, could you have a look?

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: ubuntu-desktop-trusty
Revision history for this message
Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Is this really new for trusty? I would have thought that you never have been able to select session type for the guest session that way. Please note that no guest account exists by the time you click the button; a temporary account is created afterwards.

Anyway, I just wanted to chime in with the suggestion that if this gets fixed somehow, it would be great if also the language chooser (currently only on lightdm-gtk-greeter) could be used to set the language for a guest session on the fly. I suppose the code would be quite similar.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in lightdm:
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Revision history for this message
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

This has worked in at least lightdm 1.4

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in lightdm:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Saucy):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.9.11-0ubuntu1

---------------
lightdm (1.9.11-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:42:04 +1300

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm:
milestone: none → 1.9.10
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

saucy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the saucy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Saucy):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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