Bug 1640918 – Switching users in GNOME session is starting new X servers for the user, and a user logout is making it unusable.

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Bug 1640918 - Switching users in GNOME session is starting new X servers for the user, and a user logout is making it unusable.

Summary:	Switching users in GNOME session is starting new X servers for the user, and ...

Status:	POST

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-qxl (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.6
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	high Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Default Assignee for SPICE Bugs
QA Contact:	SPICE QE bug list
Docs Contact:	Marie Dolezelova

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Keywords:	ZStream

Depends On:	1489977 1635747 1636460
Blocks:
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Reported:	2018-10-19 03:40 EDT by Jiri Koten
Modified:	2018-11-01 07:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	18 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	X.org server crashes during fast user switching The X.Org X11 `qxl` video driver does not emulate the leaving virtual terminal event on shutdown. Consequently, the X.Org display server terminates unexpectedly during fast user switching, and the current user session is terminated when switching a user.
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Clone Of:	1635747
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backtrace (9.86 KB, text/plain) 2018-10-19 03:46 EDT, Jiri Koten	no flags	Details
Xorg log (53.36 KB, text/plain) 2018-10-19 03:47 EDT, Jiri Koten	no flags	Details
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Comment 1 Jiri Koten 2018-10-19 03:46 EDT

Created attachment 1495557 [details]
backtrace

Comment 2 Jiri Koten 2018-10-19 03:47 EDT

Created attachment 1495558 [details]
Xorg log

Comment 3 Victor Toso 2018-10-19 06:41:15 EDT

Easy to reproduce. I confirm that patch from Ray does fix the issue [0], I'll follow up with him how it should be proposed upstream.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1490121

Comment 5 Victor Toso 2018-10-25 03:59:10 EDT

Upstream merge request
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/merge_requests/2

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