GDM does not kill resistant user processes after logout

[laksdjfaasdf]

Binary package hint: gdm

Description:

The bug is described in Gnome's bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152907

I don't know if they will fix it upstream, so please provide a patch that kills resistant user processes after logging out of Gnome session. Even if user did a <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> to kill the X server it's unacceptable that there will be resistant user processes in memory!

Following bug in Launchpad deals with a similar problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/49594

Expected behavior:

If Gnome devs are not interested in killing processes after <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> was hit by a user, GDM should have a patch that kills ALL user processes which are still running. Thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. No need to open upstream wishlist on launchpad if they are already known on bugzilla though

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

For me this is not a whishlist but a BUG. GDM 2.20 is out and nothing happened upstream.

Please add an entry to GDM script that kills user processes. It's very annoying to have many resistant processes running around after logging out or killing X server. I'm not sure but they maybe interfere with each other, if same user logs in again!?

I think Gnome session manager for example can collide if there is already a running Gnome session manager. In my point of view this session manager is not very reliable and if there is another one still running there might be problems. Here sometimes session manager even does not start correctly after a FRESH system startup.

What about computers where lots of people logout and login again many times a day?

There you have lots of resistant processes staying in memory which is not a good thing in my point of view. They are also using memory and in case of Tracker staying in memory, it maybe even still use CPU.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's not gdm job to make other software exit correctly, the request to add a workaround to gdm is a wishlist

[Akdo (menoft)]

If this is not gdm job to make other softwares exit correctly ( that I think too ), why don't those other softwares were not fixed !!

This must be this way.

Since 2007-07-18 this report exist !!! We say that gnu-linux ( desktop ) can work well without rebooting, ctrl+alt+backspace is this symbol !

Programs in question :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/308756