session: Always use separate session bus for greeter sessions

This is a workaround for the fact that we currently need to run multiple
greeter sessions in multi-seat environments that use the same user. We
should not be doing this in the first place. Doing this effectively
prevents GNOME from using a systemd startup, which would cause relevant
processes to be outside of the session scope preventing lookups of the
logind session from the PID.

Instead, we really should be running each of the greeter session as a
separate (dynamic) user. But lacking that, this workaround should get
multi-seat support up and running again for the time being.

See: #526

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/daemon/gdm-session.c b/daemon/gdm-session.c
index 4e303e70..ca7d98f1 100644
--- a/daemon/gdm-session.c
+++ b/daemon/gdm-session.c
@@ -2900,23 +2900,33 @@ gdm_session_start_session (GdmSession *self,
 
                 g_free (command);
         } else {
+                /* FIXME:
+                 * Always use a separate DBus bus for each greeter session.
+                 * Firstly, this means that if we run multiple greeter session
+                 * (which we really should not do, but have to currently), then
+                 * each one will get its own DBus session bus.
+                 * But, we also explicitly do this for seat0, because that way
+                 * it cannot make use of systemd to run the GNOME session. This
+                 * prevents the session lookup logic from getting confused.
+                 * This has a similar effect as passing --builtin to gnome-session.
+                 *
+                 * We really should not be doing this. But the fix is to use
+                 * separate dynamically created users and that requires some
+                 * major refactorings.
+                 */
                 if (run_launcher) {
                         if (is_x11) {
-                                program = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR "/gdm-x-session %s\"%s\"",
+                                program = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR "/gdm-x-session %s\"dbus-run-session -- %s\"",
                                                            register_session ? "--register-session " : "",
                                                            self->selected_program);
                         } else {
-                                program = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR "/gdm-wayland-session %s\"%s\"",
+                                program = g_strdup_printf (LIBEXECDIR "/gdm-wayland-session %s\"dbus-run-session -- %s\"",
                                                            register_session ? "--register-session " : "",
                                                            self->selected_program);
                         }
                 } else {
-                        if (g_strcmp0 (self->display_seat_id, "seat0") != 0) {
-                                program = g_strdup_printf ("dbus-run-session -- %s",
-                                                           self->selected_program);
-                        } else {
-                                program = g_strdup (self->selected_program);
-                        }
+                        program = g_strdup_printf ("dbus-run-session -- %s",
+                                                   self->selected_program);
                 }
         }