Comment 206 for bug 1311316

This really isn't acceptable for our use. We may have a rather smallish
organization (I manage 103 Ubuntu machines, most of them user-facing
workstations) but we are a national research institute and we give Linux
and Ubuntu international attention every time we have a group of
scientists arrive for a workshop simply by running something other than
the standard Winblows ecosystem. Creating a second account for them
really isn't feasible, and trying to convince them to log in a second
time, "just in case," just doesn't work. For many of them this will be
their first exposure to a Linux desktop environment, and if they get
bitten by a bug like this then it'll probably be their last. This bug
makes both Ubuntu and Linux in general look bad, and that makes me sad.
There are some functions that you just expect to work without fail, and
this is one of them.

Michael

On 07/21/2017 04:49 PM, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> @Klemen, as a work around I make sure that a second user is logged in
> (most of the time one of my children). If I am locked out, I can switch
> to a different X-session (ctrl-alt-f8 or so) and then switch to my user
> with the menu in the top left corner. Then I can enter my password.
>