http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081469 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081469#c3 --- Comment #3 from Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@tmo.at> --- (In reply to Heinz Kohl from comment #2)
In all former times, when by accident I tried to open a new session with the same user, the old session is reopened. That's the expected behavior.
Sorry, but that's just not true. At least kdm always opened a *new* session if you logged in as an already logged in user (unless you explicitly chose "Switch User" in the menu on the *login screen*). No idea what others like gdm or lightdm do, but that's rather irrelevant here. Anyway, what you describe still is what bug#1008105 is about (i.e. there is *no* crucial difference IMHO). And there are basically two ways to "solve" it: - Prevent a second login (either by switching to the existing session, or aborting with an error message) - Make two simultaneous logins work The latter would mean a total rewrite of the desktop (and/or underlying libraries) though, and is unlikely to happen IMHO. But, SDDM (which we use by default for a KDE installation meanwhile) probably will gain the feature to reopen the running session if you choose an already logged in user at some point, but it's not in any released version yet. https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/730 The latter would mean a total rewrite of the desktop (and/or underlying libraries) though, and is unlikely to happen IMHO.
Additionally, it's very easy to accidently get this situation. In my case, it's enough not to select the root user before submitting a password.
How does the root user come into play here? That's not even displayed by default (in SDDM at least). And if you enter a wrong password (or the password of a different user), you should not be logged in a second time anyway. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.