Public bug reported: Binary package hint: fast-user-switch-applet
We use fast-user-switch-applet as default method for shutting down computers in schools. Our users (400.000+) report us that using a single user of the system at school f-u-s-a disappears (look at the attached capture) and they can't do a clean shutdown of the computer. Furthermore, f-u-s-a eats a lot of CPU (50%+). Our users (students and teachers) doesn't have wnough knowledge of a linux system for killing the process and restart it so they have to force shutdown of the computer to continue working. This behaviour only appears when computers are connected to the net of the school. The system has the possibility of login against school's LDAP (OpenLDAP) server. This behaviour appears sometimes in all the computers of the classroom at the same time. When this happens you can see at the /var/log/auth.log file the next lines: Dec 14 15:30:01 pc236-0 CRON[8544]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Dec 14 15:30:01 pc236-0 CRON[8542]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Dec 14 15:30:01 pc236-0 CRON[8543]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Dec 14 15:30:16 pc236-0 fast-user-switch-applet: nss_ldap: could not get LDAP result - Can't contact LDAP server Dec 14 15:39:01 pc236-0 CRON[8633]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) Dec 14 15:39:01 pc236-0 CRON[8633]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root Dec 14 15:40:01 pc236-0 CRON[8640]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0) This bug affects Ubuntu 9.04 f-u-s-a default package, but also affects current version in Karmic 9.10. Now we are testing with a fast-user-switch-applet backport from karmic in jaunty: Package: fast-user-switch-applet Version: 2.24.0-3ubuntu1cga0 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/fast-user-switch-applet/fast-user-switch-applet Package: fast-user-switch-applet 2.24.0-3ubuntu1cga0 ProcEnviron: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: fast-user-switch-applet Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686 ** Affects: fast-user-switch-applet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 -- fast-user-switch-applet hangs and disappears from panel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs