Bug in Login-Screen issue (double login of the same user possible - desktop gets useless for both logins)

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Mon Aug 22 17:26:58 BST 2022


On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:17 AM Erik Rull <erik.rull at rdsoftware.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the behavior is definitively unwanted:
> - Start System (kubuntu 20.04 LTS - only one user available as set up during
> installation)
> - Log in as user "user"
> - Lock screen
> - Choose "switch user"
> - Screen switching seems to happen
> - Log in now as "user" (again - no other user can be chosen here)
> - Log in seems to happen as for the first login, but no taskbar, autostart stuff
> loads, when pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 I get fractions of my previous login, but also
> without taskbar, no real interaction with the GUI possible, etc. Pressing
> Ctrl+Alt+F2 returns me to the "second" login, but this is still unusable.
> - Way to get out: Either not using any gui until reboot (Ctrl+Alt+F3 => login,
> sudo reboot) or sitting infinitely annoyed in front of two broken GUI logins...
>
> The even more funny thing is: I didn't find that out initially, I just
> accidentally entered my password on the second screen without having noticed
> that the "switch user" was executed by my 15 month old son before... (Screen was
> locked, he just randomly hit some keys on the keyboard and moved the mouse)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik

This indeed looks like a problem. can you please report it in bugs.kde.org?

You can place it under plasma and we'll assign it into the correct place.
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=plasmashell

Thanks!
Aleix


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