I see it right now on karmic. To trigger it: 1) Login as jakob 2) Switch user, login as gast 3) Switch user, login back to jakob
/var/log/gdm/:2-slave.log fills with: -------- gdm-session-worker[3963]: pam_unix(gdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:2 ruser= rhost= user=jakob gdm-session-worker[3967]: pam_unix(gdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:2 ruser= rhost= user=jakob gdm-session-worker[3971]: pam_unix(gdm:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:2 ruser= rhost= user=jakob -------- /var/log/gdm/:2-greeter.log fills with (original is in german, i translated it to english) -------- Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1600028 (Login window) Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1600028 (Login window) Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed. -------- Additionally, gdm-simple-slave and gdm-simple-greeter start leaking memory. I rebooted as both processes reached 100MB of private writeable memory each. -- In multi account environment, gdm starts looping , making failed login noises; pam_unix(gdm:auth) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261661 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs