Bug 16847

Summary:	Plasma settings corrupted by multiple users logging into the machine
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kdebase4-workspace	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	17123
Bug Blocks:

Description David Walser 2015-09-28 18:53:44 CEST

The KDE lock screen has a Start New Session button, which we instructors frequently make use of at work.  Often, this will cause the KDE4 Plasma desktop settings to be corrupted for the subsequent users to log in.  The most noticeable is the desktop containment settings get reset, but strangely, not to the defaults, but to an empty desktop containment (rather than the default Folder View) and a default background.  The panel settings will also be reset to the defaults.

Reproducible: 

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David Walser 2015-09-28 18:53:52 CEST

CC: (none) => lmenut

Comment 1 Florian Hubold 2016-03-19 10:40:59 CET

FWIW, this also happens even when not using multiple users or new sessions, but on single-user machines intermittently but rarely. What usually happens is that a new activity is created which uses "default desktop" (or default workspace).

Did you try to report this directly upstream?

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Comment 2 David Walser 2016-03-19 14:25:56 CET

(In reply to Florian Hubold from comment #1)
> Did you try to report this directly upstream?

There's no point.  Plasma 4 is no longer supported upstream, and they close bugs filed for it.

Samuel Verschelde 2016-08-25 16:23:31 CEST

Assignee: mageia => kde

Luc Menut 2016-08-25 16:42:52 CEST

CC: lmenut => (none)

David Walser 2016-12-30 23:40:33 CET

Depends on: (none) => 17123

Comment 3 David Walser 2017-08-25 00:35:35 CEST

Fixed in http://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2017-0066.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED