Christopher, I no longer have 10.04, so unfortunately I cannot answer your question.
I am on 12.04, and I have not experienced this problem with it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/693446 Title: Switch user loses session and logs out Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm When using switch user, the original user gets logged out. More detail: - First user logs in. - "Switch user" -- login screen shows first user still logged in. - Second user logs in. - Second user logs out. - Login screen shows first user logged out. First user can log in again but original session has been lost. Error message in the GDM logs: Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/102269cdd64f9053f9128325589418062200000038330002.ms: Failed to open file '/var/lib/gdm/.config/metacity/sessions/102269cdd64f9053f9128325589418062200000038330002.ms': No such file or directory Canonical says, "when you switch user it creates a saved session, but upon return that file is gone." I have attached my logs from /var/log/gdm. System: Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.1 LTS 64-bit with all updates installed. Synaptic reports gdm version 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu4. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 5bf569339afeaacf6d8dcc180d0a06f0 CheckboxSystem: b1865df84255b8716d3bcc269ff410d1 Date: Wed Dec 22 15:37:25 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/693446/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
