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xfce4-session package

Xubuntu 20.04.2.1 cannot log out, shut down or restart from a temporary guest session.

Bug #1921920 reported by Amigo Ventero
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lightdm (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I cannot log out, shut down or restart from an activated temporary guest session. Only via tty or REISUB. Clicking anything in the logout/restart/shutdown GUI dialog window will only result in the message "An error occurred while logging out"
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.InvalidArgs: Type ofmessage, "(yb)", does not match expected type "(b)"

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Amigo Ventero (ventero1)
description: updated
description: updated
Changed in ubuntu:
assignee: nobody → Amigo Ventero (ventero1)
Amigo Ventero (ventero1)
tags: added: guest logout session temporary
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Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: xubuntu
affects: ubuntu → xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
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Amigo Ventero (ventero1) wrote :

Sorry - in this case, I was unable to identify a specific package, but I listed the error message and the situation when it happened.

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Amigo Ventero (ventero1) wrote :

There is a bug in Xubuntu 20.04.2, probably on the lightdm side, which manifests itself in such a way that if a Temporary Guest Session is activated and the user logs in to that session, he cannot log out. It is therefore necessary to reboot via console after admin login using "systemctl reboot -i". Or REISUB. However, sometimes a fictitious Guest user is created, but it is protected by some fictitious password, and what is worse it is not listed anywhere in the GUI user list.

I deleted the related entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd- , deleted /tmp/ and rebooted. The dummy accounts no longer haunt me in lightdm. However, this does not solve a very annoying bug for me ...

tags: added: lightdm
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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote :

Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-meta/+bug/1909393

Michal Stanke (mstanke)
Changed in xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu):
assignee: Amigo Ventero (ventero1) → nobody
Sean Davis (bluesabre)
affects: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → xfce4-session (Ubuntu)
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