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#1 2015-01-15 17:31:56

omer666
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Registered: 2011-01-26
Posts: 70

[SOLVED]GNOME 3.14 user switch not working

Hi everybody, happy new year.

I noticed quite recently that user switching doesn't work on GNOME 3.14 anymore.
I'm using nVidia drivers (343.36 from repo), I don't know if it's the one thing responsible for this, as desktop experience with their driver is becoming quite buggy in recent years.

Does anyone experience the same problem?
(I know it's not a very widely used feature but I got used to share the same computer at home and sometimes it proved to be very useful...)

Thanks in advance.

[Edit] I'm not talking about closing session, but switching between users on the fly...

[Solution] Fixed with nVidia drivers 346.35
=> It's more complicated than that! In fact package nvidia-346.35-2 forced me to create the following file in order to be able to start X:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Nvidia Card"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

...and it worked with this configuration.

Bug when nvidia-346.35-3 hit the repos, I deleted the config file as it was no more needed to start X, but user switching once more failed to work as intended.
I created this file once again, restarted gdm (and thus X was restarted too), and everything went fine.

I don't know why a minimal config file is needed for user switching when it's not needed for starting X, though... GNOME devs might want to dig this.

Last edited by omer666 (2015-01-19 22:30:17)

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#2 2015-01-19 22:30:51

omer666
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Registered: 2011-01-26
Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED]GNOME 3.14 user switch not working

I bump this thread in case anyone is interested in this...

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#3 2015-02-22 17:06:19

thebisht
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Registered: 2015-02-22
Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]GNOME 3.14 user switch not working

Omer666,

This also fixed the problem I was having. The specific steps to reproduce the problem were as follows:

1. Log in as user1. (start some apps)
2. Click Switch User
3. Log in as user2.
4. Log out
5. Log back in as user1.

At this point without the above mentioned fix. user1's session will be restarted (or maybe it was killed when we clicked Switch User).

I'm running the nvidia drivers version 346.35-6.

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#4 2015-05-08 22:40:13

Convergence
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Registered: 2005-07-02
Posts: 377

Re: [SOLVED]GNOME 3.14 user switch not working

Omer666:  Where did you find this?  Is it in the Wiki somwhere?  It should be if it's not.


It's a very deadly weapon to know what you're doing
---  William Murderface

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