Devuan bug report logs - #540
slim fails to get logind session if logout/login cycle is rapid

Package: slim; Maintainer for slim is Devuan Dev Team <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for slim is src:slim.

Reported by: Frank <fbug@xs4all.nl>

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 1.3.6-5.2+devuan1

Done: dak@devuan.org

Forwarded to https://github.com/elogind/elogind/issues/95

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 04:31:25PM +0100, Frank wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I played around with the slim PAM configuration and found a possible
> solution: change the elogind class from "user" to "greeter". Slim does not
> fork a helper process so changing it makes sense to me. When a new session
> is created, previous sessions close in the background, even if the
> logout/login cycle is rapid. Looks promising?

Interesting. I am wondering (from a very quick read of the docs) if we can
achieve the same by setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS within slim.

Thanks.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #540 slim fails to get logind session if logout/login cycle is rapid

Devuan bug report logs - #540
slim fails to get logind session if logout/login cycle is rapid