[1021] in athena10
Athena 10 xscreensaver "Log Out" feature
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Jan 30 10:09:38 2009
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Athena 10 <athena10@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:08:31 -0500
Er, this should also have been CC'd here.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
> Date: January 30, 2009 10:07:55 AM EST
> To: testers@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Athena 10 xscreensaver "Log Out" feature
>
> The "Log Out" feature in xscreensaver has a couple of issues:
>
> 1) It gives no feedback when the user clicks "Log Out". Granted,
> the old xscreensaver didn't either, but at least the "timeout"
> progress bar stopped when you pressed Ctrl-L (or am I misremembering?)
>
> 2) It doesn't appear to actually work. After (inadvertantly)
> leaving myself logged in for about 36 hours, I tried logging myself
> out from the prompt. It appeared to have no effect (didn't even
> cause the disk LED to flicker). After 10 minutes of waiting, I gave
> up and unlocked the screen. There were a bunch of apps open,
> including a Nautilus modal dialog, and the "Renew Authentication"
> dialog. I wonder if any of them affected the log out feature.
>
> After using the workstation for a bit, I locked it again and left it
> overnight. I came in this morning, and attempted to use the Log Out
> feature again. Nothing happened after 5 minutes, so I unlocked the
> screen and logged in. After I did that, I was immediately logged out.
>
> However, I can't use the machine again because every time I try to
> log in, I get immediately logged out and .xsession-errors says:
>
>> File descriptor 9 left open
>> Can't remove open logical volume "login"
>> gdm[28301]: ERROR: session_child_run: Execution of PreSession
>> script returned > 0. Aborting.
>> aborting...
>
> So, something is special here.
>
> Also, should we disable the "Leave Message" feature in xscreensaver
> on cluster machines? I can see that being abused.
