Public bug reported:
When I'm switching user system becomes unusable and computer needs to be
restarted.
This is how it happens:
1) I open the user menu and select switch user function from there
2) screen goes black and ubuntu greetings with users selection is displayed
3) there I select appropriate user and type in password
4) nothing happens, no message is displayed, password editbox turns white.
Greeting screen is still working, I can scroll users, open up menus etc but
can't get from that screen inside the user's session - it is simply not
starting. Also I noticed that when scrolling through users they have no
password field no more.
5) After returning back to the main user session (Ctrl-Alt-F7) I got:
- No Internet. Wifi network lost its connection and new connection cound't be
initialed - when I select any wifi network from drop-down list nothing happens
at all. Restarting networking doesn't help. Restarting Network Manager doesn't
help too. Rmmoding/modprobing iwlagn doesn't help too.
- bottom panel is displaed (while it shound't ) and is not hiding
- the message in the bottom panel about lost wifi connection doesn't go away too
- Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work (while I configured system so that it does
work)
- attempting to run switch user again from the user menu just makes the screen
to go black. Touching mouse simply turn it on so I'm still in my main session.
- switching to the second session (Ctrl-Alt-F8) restores semi-working greeting
screen (see (4))
- attempting to initiate computer shutdown from the user menu made my screen to
go darker and everything in X stopped answering, so I had to switch to the
first tty and run shutdown from there.
In short, after trying to switch a user:
1) I didn't get new user session
2) My current session is broken - Network is down, view is screwed - bottom
panel etc, shortcuts partially lost.
Only computer restart fixes this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 23 18:34:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (5 days ago)
** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric
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Unable to switch user when using gnome-shell
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