OpenSuSE Tumbleweed with all updates. Actual state: After Energieverwaltung/Sitzung > Benutzer wechseln when forgetting to change the login name. The login seems to be successful, but then: it's impossible to log out, change user, shut down / reboot is only possible using a command shell (if one is open!) (At least in the last tumbleweed version it was additionally impossible to start programs beside doing that using an open window - e.g. a shell window) Please refer to my original error message to OpenSuSE bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081469 ... "Tumbleweed with all updates. Situation: After Energieverwaltung/Sitzung > Benutzer wechseln but the following new login is using the same login name. The login seems to be successful, but then: it's impossible to log out, change user, start a new program or shut down / reboot is only possible using a command shell (if one is open!)" There you'll see, it's a very old problem, at least since the error message 2016-11-02 13:55 UTC by Ulrich Hiller Additional entry: It would be very, very helpful and could be a big step forward for error correction handling to make the error message world a bit more connected. It's really annoying to seek for the correct addressee for a bugzilla message. The actual state is provoking the drain away of error messaging effort.
Sorry, it's really hard to tell what this bug is describing. Can you please write Steps To Reproduce, as outlined here? https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting#Steps_to_Reproduce Also see https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting#Step_6:_File_a_high-quality_bug_report
Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. select Energieverwaltung/Sitzung > Benutzer wechseln 2. login to same user account than before (o.k., to open the same acoount twice is impossible in linux, the try to do that is useless - but it's only necessary to forget to select another login name) 3. use the Kontrollleiste to try to one of the following: try to logout, to reboot, to change the user correctly using the desktop Actual Results: It looks like going back to the original user, but None of step 3 is working. To go out of this session, it's possible, to use an open shell command to reboot (but it may be even impossible, to open a new shell or to use <ctrl><alt><F5>). Strictly reproducible. When the login is using another user name, all is working correctly. (I just copied that from my link to my referred message to OpenSuSE) Expected Results, e.g.: one of the following: (1) error message e.g. "you are already logged in as this user" or "you have forgotten to select a different user account" or (2) end the useless try and go back to the old job or (3) logout; login again
Thanks, that's very helpful.
Resetting status.
Oops, thanks Christoph. My bad.
That's SDDM, not kscreenlocker, which is a project outside of KDE. David, can you point to that upstream bug?
>That's SDDM, not kscreenlocker, which is a project outside of KDE. David, can you point to that upstream bug? It's on SDDMs github, but it's now a config option to choose behaviour. ReuseSession=true