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[VanillaMozilla <1320560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth, this also affects Ubuntu 14.04 with the classic
metacity desktop.  Anton Asche's workaround (comment 4) solved the
problem for me.

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Title:
  Removal of gdmflexiserver breaks user switching

Status in xfce4-panel package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xfswitch-plugin package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hello and pardon for my bad english.
  On xfce4, the button to log with a new user without logout never wants to works.
  It accepts to open a confirmation windows "To you really want to change user?" That's OK.
  Then I press Yes and I've got an error message who says in french : "Impossible to create a new display"
  and in english : "GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.DisplayManager was not provided by any .service files"

  lsb_release-rd :
  Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:        14.04

  apt-cache policy xfswitch-plugin
  xfswitch-plugin:
    Installé : 0.0.1-4ubuntu1
    Candidat : 0.0.1-4ubuntu1
   Table de version :
   *** 0.0.1-4ubuntu1 0
          500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Thanks for your help.

  Claude Micouin

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xfswitch-plugin 0.0.1-4ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Sun May 18 00:20:57 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-07 (10 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  SourcePackage: xfswitch-plugin
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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