No logout from remote flashback session in trusty

[Rüdiger Kupper]

Since I upgraded our LTSP server to trusty, users cannot log out any more from the gnome session. The logout entry from the system menu and the logout button added to gnome-panel simply do nothing.

Running "gnome-session-quit" from the terminal, I get the following:
> ** (gnome-session-quit:2390): WARNING **: Failed to call logout: Logout interface is only available during the Running phase

The only way to end the session is "killall -u $USER".

Note that the X session is running remote (LTSP thin client). Same problem when running via XDMCP.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-session-flashback 1:3.6.2-0ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-20.35-generic 3.11.10.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 3 18:13:39 2014
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-15 (80 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Edubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Hm, I cannot reproduce this at home (standard Trusty installation, remote login via XDMCP: all fine). There must be some reason why logout does not work with our LTSP server.

Question: What can prevent logout from gnome-session? What can cause the above cited error? (Failed to call logout: Logout interface is only available during the Running phase.)

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

I have found a possible duplicate in red hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063093

Please confirm this is the same problem.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Bug #491940 may also have information (that seems to be the patch contining the error message I see).

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

If gnome-session-quit also doesn't work, then it is a bug in gnome-session, and there is nothing we can do in gnome-panel about that.

I suggest you to ping the author of the patch from bug 491940.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 13.10 (saucy) reached end-of-life on July 17, 2014.

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