Ubuntu GNOME: reboot dialog in live image shows 6 versions of the live user logged in on the console

[Andy Whitcroft]

When attempting to shutdown from the power menu on Ubuntu GNOME live session the live session user is shown logged in roughly 6 times on (console). Talking to ~xnox this is likely related to systemd-logind.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Does not appear to occur on the installed system.

It is possible this is related to the emergency holographic shell, but there is only one of those.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1347553

[Tim Lunn (darkxst)]

I am aware of this issue but it is pretty hard to fix.

Basically what happens is when you goto shutdown gnome-shell, it shows a list of all logged in sessions, this would be completely normal behaviour except, it just so happens that on the live session that all 6 VT's are set to auto-login.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

As there are actually 6 ttyX logins, this just shows that logind is actually right -- these all need their own logind cgroup/session.

What gnome-shell could potentially do is to only show logins that have a Display; I suspect we don't want to offer graphical fast user switching to text VTs anyway.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

On artful I see a similar issue but only my remote (ssh) logins are listed. Not sure if the original bug still exists.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Also, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]