[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#648604: users are not logged in

[Santiago Garcia Mantinan]

Package: lightdm
Version: 1.0.6-1
Severity: critical

Hi!

I have found that when you log into lightdm my user is not shown as logged
in, wtm doesn't have a trace about it according to last and neither w or pinky
show it as logged in.

This is a serious problem as there are scripts that rely on this data to be
accurate to protect the system, for example the lid scripts from acpi should
trigger xscreensaver to protect the system and they don't as they rely on
pinky showing the user, which as I say doesn't atm.

I have seen #639988 talking about a dependency on accountsservice and I
said, no bug, my fault, I'm missing accountsservice, but the fact is that I
have it installed and even with it installed I'm not getting this data.

My system gnomity tends to zero, so if any of this stuff relys on any gnome
stuff (if like it's said on #639988 accountsservice is too gnomish this may
be the case) I may be missing that part.

However it is, I really think that lightdm should depend, not suggest or
recommend any needed package for it to be able to mark the users as logged
into the machine in order for other parts of Debian not to break because of
this lack of information.

If you need any other info on my setup just ask for it.

Regards.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=gl_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=gl_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lightdm depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113    
ii  consolekit             0.4.5-1  
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.40   
ii  libc6                  2.13-21  
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.28.8-1 
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-4  
ii  libxcb1                1.7-3    
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.1.0-3
ii  lightdm-gtk-greeter    1.0.6-1  

Versions of packages lightdm recommends:
ii  xserver-xorg  1:7.6+9

Versions of packages lightdm suggests:
ii  accountsservice  0.6.15-1

-- debconf information:
  lightdm/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/lightdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: lightdm