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Idle session setting kills the GDM process

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      The customer needs to configure StopIdleSessionSec in /etc/systemd/logind.conf, but it killing GDM leaving blank console with flashing underscore.

      How reproducible:
      Everytime

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      REPRODUCER
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      • Install RHEL8.9, select Workstation.

      ~~~
      cat /etc/redhat-release
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.9 (Ootpa)

      rpm -q systemd gdm
      systemd-239-78.el8.x86_64
      gdm-40.0-27.el8.x86_64
      ~~~

      • Add StopIdleSessionSec=100 to /etc/systemd/logind.conf:

      ~~~
      [root@localhost ~]# grep -v ^# /etc/systemd/logind.conf

      [Login]
      StopIdleSessionSec=100
      ~~~

      • Restart the service:

      ~~~
      ~]# systemctl restart systemd-logind
      ~~~

      • Login again with user and password. The console is black with a flashing underscore. But if I enter Ctrl+C, the login screen appears again and after enter user and password the login is successful.
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      Expected results

      Login screen should get locked after mentioned time.

      Actual results

      The console is black with a flashing underscore.

              msekleta@redhat.com Michal Sekletar
              rhn-support-vikpatil Vikramsingh Patil
              Jan Pazdziora, Michal Sekletar
              systemd maint mailing list systemd maint mailing list
              Frantisek Sumsal Frantisek Sumsal
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