Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134344
crtl-alt-bkspace does not logout user
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: In all versions of RedHat products up though FC1 typing ctl-alt-bkspace logs the user off and restarts the X server. In the FC2 the following results: a. 2 lines in the last command output, one indicating the user logged off and the other saying user is gone - no logout b. restarts the X server. c. when a user logs into the machine it is found that the w, who and users command indicate the original user is still logged on. d. at times there remain zombie processes owned by the original user. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-xdm-6.7.0-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login as user1 2.hit <ctl>-<alt>-<bkspave> 3.login as user 2 4, If you run the commands w, who or users they report user1 is still logged on. 5, What does not happen every time is a process ran by user1 sometines appears in the ps list. Actual Results: The results are that w, who and users report that users who had logged on previously are still logged in. Further the last command contains two lines related to user1, One says he had logged off and the other says he is gone - no logout Expected Results: What should have happened si when user1 typed <ctl>-<alt>-<backspace> thre would be logged off and the X-server would be rewstarted. No record of the login would remain in th output of the w, who or users command. And the last command's output would show he had logged off. Additional info:
Can you list processes owned by that user from ps output?
I will try to show some examples of the processes still running for users who are logged out below: chill7 19220 0.0 0.3 3584 944 ? S Oct07 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 28 nchea 11116 0.0 0.5 11904 1260 ? S Oct05 0:00 /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f artsd seems to be a typical process that stays behind.
KDE starts up artsd, and gnome starts up esd. If they're left running, that should be filed against GNOME/KDE respectively. Whatever is logging login events to utmp, doesn't seem to be clearing them at logout. Can you track down what is doing this while X is running still?
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".