Lucid switch user escape problem

[Colin Law]

On 26 March 2010 13:50, Fred Roller <fred at fwrgallery.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 09:37 AM, Fred Roller wrote:
>> On 03/26/2010 08:37 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>>> On Lucid the shutdown menu shows a list of users.  If I select one of
>>> those by accident and don't know the password there seems to be no way
>>> of getting out of the login screen, other than restart.  Cancel just
>>> shows the same screen again (with only the selected user shown).  Am I
>>> just blind and cannot see an obvious button or is this a bug?  I can't
>>> see anything on launchpad about it.
>>>
>>> colin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Not getting the same issue here.  Mine just says "Switch from [user]..."
>> I don't have a user list either at log in, so that may be the
>> difference.  I have to enter a user name at log in.  This change is
>> discussed in detail in the archives but the code from cli is:
>>
>>           sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean
>> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>>
>> What I get is my standard log in screen when I attempt to reproduce your
>> issue.  Maybe another can reproduce.
>>
>>
> sorry for the repeat, managed to reproduce when I switched to the new
> user and left the original user logged in.  the orginal user was
> listed.  when I click on that user in the list cancel did not esc but
> the switch user button drop me back down to my original log in screen
> allowing me to re-log in the original user.  hope this helps.

When I select one of the users shown in the shutdown dropdown list
(not the switch from ... item) the login screen shown only has the one
user, so I cannot get back to the original user.  I do not have a
Switch User button there.

I have taken the plunge and submitted this as my first bug report to
launchpad.  I am old enough now that I do not care if someone points
out that I am being extremely stupid for not seeing something obvious.
:)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/548941

Colin

Colin