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[Stuart Langridge <sil-launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I switched to a guest session (in Ubuntu 13.10) in order to take some
screenshots of an unconfigured install. However, there was obviously
some sort of problem with Unity, because I had no indicators in the
panel. That's obviously a separate bug, but what was most unpleasant was
that in that situation there is no sane way to get out of that guest
session without powercycling the machine. There are no indicators and
thus no system indicator with the user switcher or "log out". The guest
user cannot lock the screen to get at the screen locker's "Switch
User..." button in that situation (because there is no system indicator
with a "Lock..." entry, and Ctrl+Alt+L doesn't work, although I don't
know whether Ctrl+Alt+L didn't work because the system indicator wasn't
there or because the guest user has no password and therefore is not
allowed to lock the screen). There appears to be no process owned by the
guest user named "unity" or "unity-panel" to try killing, so "killall
unity" and "killall unity-panel" from a terminal didn't work.
(Eventually I switched to a VC, found the underlying X process for the
guest user, and killed it from there, but that's obviously not open to
most.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: unity 7.1.1+13.10.20130927.1-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 4d186c1dd89d3ba4cb89f5ee55713686
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Mon Sep 30 13:07:56 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-12-11 (659 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111211)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-05 (25 days ago)

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy third-party-packages

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1233370

Title:
  Can't quit the guest session if Unity doesn't show indicators

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I switched to a guest session (in Ubuntu 13.10) in order to take some
  screenshots of an unconfigured install. However, there was obviously
  some sort of problem with Unity, because I had no indicators in the
  panel. That's obviously a separate bug, but what was most unpleasant
  was that in that situation there is no sane way to get out of that
  guest session without powercycling the machine. There are no
  indicators and thus no system indicator with the user switcher or "log
  out". The guest user cannot lock the screen to get at the screen
  locker's "Switch User..." button in that situation (because there is
  no system indicator with a "Lock..." entry, and Ctrl+Alt+L doesn't
  work, although I don't know whether Ctrl+Alt+L didn't work because the
  system indicator wasn't there or because the guest user has no
  password and therefore is not allowed to lock the screen). There
  appears to be no process owned by the guest user named "unity" or
  "unity-panel" to try killing, so "killall unity" and "killall unity-
  panel" from a terminal didn't work. (Eventually I switched to a VC,
  found the underlying X process for the guest user, and killed it from
  there, but that's obviously not open to most.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: unity 7.1.1+13.10.20130927.1-0ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 4d186c1dd89d3ba4cb89f5ee55713686
  CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
  CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  Date: Mon Sep 30 13:07:56 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-12-11 (659 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111211)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-05 (25 days ago)

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