Session stay alive when rule changes

[MrFly]

I can't determine, if this is a bug in Little Brother or in the Taskbar:

If a session is alive (user logged in) and I'm changing the rules to kinda "force lock" of the pc, the new/updated rule does not work.

The situation: School ended earlier than the given time in the rule. I changed the rule to a time a few minutes in past. The taskbar showed the old value and the user stayed logged in.

I'm using the current versions of both apps (0.3.8_80) on Ubuntu in a client x64/server arm64 setup.

[marcus67]

Hi Mr. Fly! Thank you for your error report. I will look into this. When you say that you changed the rules, did you change the ruleset or the override of the current day?

[MrFly]

@marcus67 I really changed the existing rule to a better matching value. I had a rule called Schultage, where I changed the end time from 16:00 to let's say 15:00.

Edit: I see I made a mistake in the report above: the taskbar showed something like "no more time" (don't know the exact wording), but it did NOT log off/lock the user. Sorry for that.

[marcus67]

Ok. Let me try exactly that! Thanks!

[marcus67]

Hmm. I just tried using the latest version 0.3.10 (revision 82) at 23:35 hours:

• set the default rule to allow playtime until 23:55 hours
• login as a monitored user
• LittleBrotherTaskbar displays the correct number of remaining minutes
• change the default rule to only allow playtime until 23:30 hours
• LittleBrotherTaskbar changes the message to "no activity allowed" and plays the message "NAME, it is too late to use the computer. You will be logged out".
• The user was logged out.

This looks OK to me.

[MrFly]

Hmm, strange.... That's what I expected it to do, but did not work last time with 0.3.8. I upgraded today to 0.3.10, will give it a try tomorrow with my setup.

[MrFly]

@marcus67 I tried two things: while the user was logged in, I first changed the start time to a time in the future -> worked; the user got logged out. After another login I tried to set the end time to a time in the past -> worked, too. So I see no problem here with the current version 0.3.10_82.

But one thing happend. I don't know, if we simply were to fast at testing and logged in before the taskbar could fetch the new values(?). The taskbar always gave a spoken message, that the user has no time and will be logged out. After that, the (right) left play time were said.

[marcus67]

Hi @MrFly, is this still an issue? Otherwise, I would like to close this issue. Thanks!