In FF5, my 2 Gmail accounts log off randomly, then both tabs show same gmail 'name' asking to log back in, instead of 1 gmail name in 1 tab & the other gmail name in 2nd tab, as were originally logged in! Help, please..

Question

New Acer desktop, loaded FF5 yesterday. I keep personal & professional Gmail both open at same time (worked fine in earlier FF versions). Today, both Gmails log themselves off at random & ask for log-in. But then both tabs either show personal Gmail name or show profl Gmail name ! Also signs me out of Google Reader & Calendar (both logged in w/ personal Gmail account), then gives prof Gmail name to sign back in (which won't work, of course). HELP!

Answer 1

instead of adding more to the already long post, I add via replying to myself:
writing about the issue made some things more clear, so I looked and found this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/201 … 00474.html
which looks like my issue.
I went and tried - and a variation of it works.
1.) I log out
2.) GDM gets restarted - inittab method
it gets restarted at VT8 - it was at VT7
3.) I go to another VT - like VT1 - and log in as root
4.) I find the pid of consolekit with:
ps aux | grep console
and kill it
kill -9 <PID>
5.) I restart GDM - which will be at VT7 now, as it should
and then go back to VT1, because I'll be at the GDM-login screen at VT7 now...
6.) I find and kill consolekit _again_
7.) I can now switch to VT7 with GDM running and log in as it should be
console-kit-daemon will be started _again_ automatically
It seems it gets re-started at the wrong place - or with the wrong options
I always see it running like:
root 6439 0.0 0.3 17432 2768 ? Sl 17:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon --no-daemon
Maybe it is the "--no-daemon" option? Or that it should not be started by GDM but only afterwards, by the Gnome-session?
...or something else...
It is not a solution really, since all this takes as much time as restarting the whole system, but without all the typing and killing and switching back and forth to consoles...but it works.
What is happening here? Is this normal? Where could my misconfiguration be?
Cheers
Last edited by jomen (2010-09-27 15:48:11)