guest session option in fusa creates new sessions instead of switching to existing one

Bug #270342 reported by Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm-guest-session

Intrepid Alpha 5 fully updated. i wanted to see how things work with the guest session and i noteiced this bug:

I just opened a guest session using the fast-user-switcher-applet, i didn't perform any action, then i return to my normal user then i clicked again to the guest session and this time i created an empty folder and i opened firefox.
Then i returned back to my account. Clicking a 3rd time to the guest session resulted in getting a warning about "Multiple Logins found" (see attachment). i choose one of the two guest sessions and it ask me for password to unlock.

Steps to reproduce: i believe the above procedure could be this.

i also this files in my /tmp
                virtual-guest.GHUZ81
                virtual-guest.xcfoq3
if they mean something...

also a question: Does the guest session supposed to be one_guest_session OR multi_guest_session (eg. guest1_session, guest2_session) like happens to me? I read the blueprint but this is not clearly mentioned. Basically i want to understand if multiple guest logins should be there or not.

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Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

It's supposed to be just one guest session. If you switch back and forth, you should get back to the currently running one. This is currently a problem somewhere in between fast-user-switch-applet, gdmflexiserver, and gdm-guest-session.

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