Bug 493268

Summary:	Kdesktop_lock does not work on multiuser systems (and how to fix this)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Staffan Hamala <sh>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version:	4.7	CC:	sh
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Description Staffan Hamala 2009-04-01 08:00:56 UTC

Description of problem:

Kdesktop_lock does not run on multiuser systems. If one user has a kdesktop_lock.bin running, it won't start for another user!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL 4.7

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Select "Lock session" in KDE menu, or run kdesktop_lock.
  
Actual results:

Does not start

Expected results:

Starts

Additional info:

How to fix it:
kdesktop_lock.bin is started by a script /usr/bin/kdesktop_lock (in RHEL 4.7 - this was not so in earlier versions).

The first line in the script begins with:
LIST=`ps ax --format "%p:%a" ....

Change this to:
LIST=`ps x --format "%p:%a"  ....

I don't know why it would want to check for kdesktop_lock run by other users. It really does not work that way.

Comment 1 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:11:41 UTC

Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
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