[27177] in Athena Bugs
Re: Quickstation bugme and xscreensaver logout conflict
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Thu Jan 31 12:52:39 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:52:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
To: Matthew Goldstein <austein@mit.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Matthew Goldstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As noted in the past and in #561809, when an Athena machine is set as a
> quickstation and has been left idle, there is a conflict between bugme and
> the ctrl+L forced logout which causes logout to take forever.
> I've already suggested to this user that the machine could be made
> not-a-quickstation or the power button be made accessible, but are there any
> other suggestions you have for avoiding this conflict?
In my experience, iirc, it's not that the logout takes a long time, but it
takes longer than 20 minutes for the screensaver timer to actually reach
20 minutes such that the Ctrl-L functionality is activated. Once that
happens, pressing Ctrl-L (and waiting a short amount of time) will log the
user out.
In any case, Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-Delete should work.
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Kevin Chen
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