No mouse with minis

[silvarios]

Then again, the same bug is present in OS X server, so maybe not such a strawman argument. WindowServer freezes when switching users via ARD. Same or similar bug has been discussed countless times over the last two years or so. Some versions of Leopard also had the problem, not just Snow Leopard. Remember the black or no screen bug during the early days of Snow Leopard?

Here's a suggestion for the "fix", from this discussion (the best I've come across so far):

Following your advice, plus a little experimentation, I found that if you kill the loginwindow process (not the loginwindow console process) you will NOT kill the user's login session. The loginwindow process starts when you select the "Login Window..." item from the fast user switching menu and is owned by root, so you'll have to use "sudo kill - 9 " to end it.

If you run ps again, you'll see that the process starts again almost immediately. Quitting Screen Sharing on your VNC client machine and connecting to the host again will take you to the login screen.

As a bonus, fast user switching between the two accounts now works... at least while I'm still logged into both of the accounts.

Notice this is ARD and OS X servers. I have the same problem with screen sharing in the client OS. Not a coincidence.


Nathan