Hi

We use KDE for long time, all the family on the same computer with fast user switching

However, I'v just installed fedora 20 + kde, and found that now we are limited to 4 concurrent sessions:
After 4 users loged in, for the next "start new session" you are redirected to one of the exist sessions.

Is this known problem? Someone have solution for this?

With best regards
Yosi

might be due to the Fedora upgrade not KDE, that Fedora set maxsyslogins to 4 by default and that it earlier it was not set or maybe set to 0

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cat  /etc/security/limits.conf|grep maxsyslogins

Hi all

I set both maxsyslogins and maxlogins to unlimited, but no help.
Any idea? Should I open bug on this issue?

With best regards
Yosiy

Some more information:
When I played with maxsyslogins and maxlogins and set it to very small, and then tried to start new login, I got error notification in popup window, and I also found this error notification in /var/log/secure:

[root@yserver ~]# egrep 'pam.*limit' /var/log/secure
Sep 27 22:47:42 localhost kdm: :3[4705]: pam_limits(kdm:session): Too many logins (max for xxx
Sep 27 22:47:46 localhost systemd: pam_limits(systemd-user:session): Too many logins (max for xxx
Sep 27 22:47:46 localhost systemd: pam_limits(systemd-user:session): conversation failed

However, when I set maxsyslogins and maxlogins to unlimited, no any popup message nor log message appears, just when I
"k-menu->leave->switch user->new session" it elegantly redirect me not to KDM login screen, but to another screen where I can only choose between exist users.

With best regards
YosiY

does rebooting the machine help, if so maybe it's a display issue and you need to increase DisplaysPerHost= in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc (your locale may differ) https://www.starnet.com/xwin32kb/sessio ... s-reached/

I'm perplexed as Linux should be able to open a fairly large number of distinct user sessions by default as you had previously experienced, I wouldn't think this was a kdm thing (though it could be) and I'd ask on the Fedora forum

Hi

Thanks very much!

The solution was in kdmrc config file. The parameter to change was ReserveServers, and I changed it from:
ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3
to
ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3,:4,:5,:6,:7

With best regards
Yosi