Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 586487
[RFE] Add multi-seat support for GDM
Last modified: 2013-11-12 17:15:55 EST
Description of problem: The Oracle SunRay software depends on multi-seat support of GDM. This software is compatible with RHEL4 and RHEL5. On RHEL6 however, the software doesn't work. This is because multi-seat support was dropped from GDM when it was reworked. This means that RHEL6 will not be suitable to act as SunRay terminal server. This means we cannot upgrade when RHEL6 becomes available. Multi-Seat support is expected to reappear in future versions of GDM. A patch to add Multi-Seat support can be found in the bugzilla of the Gnome project. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536355 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.28
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion.
Hi, That patch is not quite ready to go upstream or for us to adopt. It should land in time for GDM 2.32. RHEL 6.0 GA will ship GDM 2.30. We're unlikely to get support for multi-seat support into RHEL 6.0 GA.
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.
Thank you for your bug report. This issue was evaluated for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately, we are unable to address this request in the current release. Because we are in the final stage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 development, only significant, release-blocking issues involving serious regressions and data corruption can be considered. If you believe this issue meets the release blocking criteria as defined and communicated to you by your Red Hat Support representative, please ask your representative to file this issue as a blocker for the current release. Otherwise, ask that it be evaluated for inclusion in the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Closing this bug, since the associated customer case has closed. Please feel free to re-open this if new information becomes available.
I'm opening this ticket again, since we have new requests for this. I've added an RFE not to the description. Please consider this for addition to RHEL6.
After thorough deliberation, this bugzilla is not planned on being addressed in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 time frame.