[Bug 78470] Re: switching to current logged in user freezes gdm

[Sebastien Bacher]

That is known upstream, they wrote a note about it:

"- Now all GDM GUI's are run as the gdm user.  This change ensures
  that all GDM GUI's can talk to the at-spi-registryd that is 
  running.  This change involved making the forked slave talk
  to the the GDM daemon so that the dialogs can be displayed.  
  The response from the dialog can be returned to the slave.
  There are reports that this bug triggers GDK bug #376315 on
  Linux when a11y is turned off.  This will need to be fixed
  before the next GDM stable release.  Workaround is to turn
  on a11y until this bug is fixed.  (Leena Gunda and Srirama
  Sharma)"

** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #376315
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376315

** Also affects: gdm (upstream) via
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376315
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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switching to current logged in user freezes gdm
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78470