lightdm-gtk-greeter does not exit cleanly when logging in

It appears that lightdm-gtk-greeter is waiting for init (upstart) to exit. upstart is in turn waiting on the indicator services to exit. From the log:

** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:2775): WARNING **: Failed to load user image: Failed to open file '/home/jack/.face': No such file or directory
init: indicator-power main process (2805) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-sound main process (2807) killed by TERM signal
init: indicator-sound main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power main process ended, respawning
init: indicator-power respawning too fast, stopped

From ps waxf:

 1939 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/sbin/lightdm-gtk-greeter
 1966 ? S 0:00 init --user --startup-event indicator-services-start
 2000 ? Ssl 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service

(several such instances may be seen)

pastbin /var/log/lightdm/*
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070285/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070286/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070287/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070288/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070289/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070291/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070292/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070294/
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7070295/

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

It's possible this is from the update to xfwm4 from yesterday.

Jackson,

Not from yesterday. This first occurred for me about 1 week ago,
intermittently as I was testing 32 and 64 bit iso for qatracker on vbox vm
around10 installations per day. It was raised on #xubuntu-devel and was
difficult to reproduce.

Hope this helps.

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Jackson Doak <email address hidden>wrote:

> It's possible this is from the update to xfwm4 from yesterday.
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I've seen this issue as well once or twice.

We're using the same method/s to start/stop indicator-services as unity-greeter does, I wonder why it works there (or does it not?) and seemingly not reliably for us...

The gtk_main_quit() function tries to terminate the greeter in a clean way and is immediately interrupted by calling exit().

=== modified file 'src/lightdm-gtk-greeter.c'
--- src/lightdm-gtk-greeter.c 2014-03-02 08:13:23 +0000
+++ src/lightdm-gtk-greeter.c 2014-03-11 12:21:22 +0000
@@ -1815,7 +1815,6 @@
 sigterm_cb (int signum)
 {
     gtk_main_quit();
- exit (0);
 }

 static void

Thanks for catching that, fix pushed. Will come along with next release.

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm-gtk-greeter - 1.8.3-0ubuntu1

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lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.8.3-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1291913)
    - Now correctly exits when logging in (LP: #1290575)
 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Mar 2014 06:35:23 -0400

Just saw this bug after updating just now. This is my version, lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.8.3

Just rebooted pc to try & replicate this problem for a 3rd time. I opened as many applications as I could remember having open the other times. So far I can replicate application windows flashing non stop after trying to start a VM in "QEMU emulator version 1.7.0 (Debian 1.7.0+dfsg-3ubuntu6)", which stops when I close it, I'm positive the first two times this bug arose the flashing of windows happened but on the third time no greeter taskbar applications were shown.

I've had this a couple of times in the last day or so.

Doesn't appear fixed here.

I installed a VM in VirtualBox of the 64bit version of Lubuntu yesterday Mar 18th using the daily iso pending download, and immediately saw this problem, but not at every boot or login. When it happened I had to logout and in again several times to get to a usable desktop, as those zombie processes appeared to stop me doing very much else, and I could find no way of killing the processes that worked either in terminal or with any GUI application

In an attempt to overcome it I installed, and tried to use xdm, but when using that it was impossible to get to a GUI desktop, or even a command line; just a black screen that would take no input.

From the grubmenu I booted to recovery mode and there purged xdm and I am now back to the lightdm-gtk-greeter which so far has not caused any more problems. I have aslso reinstalled lightdm-gtk-greeter to see if that has any effect, and will report back any progress or regression I see.

As this issue is really difficult to reproduce (I've only seen it once here), could you please attach some logs from right when/after it happens?

We'd be interested in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log, /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log, /var/log/lightdm/x-1-greeter.log
You'll need root access to grab these logs.

Please check whether there is any sensitive information in these logs that you don't want to publish before uploading them!

11:23 <brainwash> can anyone please re-open bug 1290575 ?
11:23 <ubot2> Launchpad bug 1290575 in LightDM GTK+ Greeter "lightdm-gtk-greeter does not exit cleanly when logging
              in" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1290575
11:24 <brainwash> the bug is not fully fixed
11:26 <brainwash> the status has been already set back to "confirmed", but "fix released" seems to override it

It has a moderate impact on a core package.

After several days of this problem not returning, I booted yesterday to my Xubuntu 64 bit, fully updated with a new kernel 3.13.0-19, but as a virtual machine in VirtualBox PUEL version 4.3.8, with Guest additions installed and otherwise running beautifully, and there it was again.

I copied the three logs you requested and I attach them here.

Next requested log file

Third requested log file

Sorry, I can not find a way to edit my post #18, where I said I booted Xubuntu. It was, in fact Lubuntu 64bit but otherwise same details and same updated kernel etc etc.

We pushed a fix to trunk for this problem (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lightdm-gtk-greeter-team/lightdm-gtk-greeter/trunk/revision/265).

You could use our daily PPA (https://launchpad.net/~lightdm-gtk-greeter-team/+archive/daily) to test whether this problem is now indeed fixed.

I have just installed the updated version of lightdm-gtk-greeter on my Lubuntu trusty 64bit in a VM on VirtualBox, and though it is too early to know if it has solved the problem, I have so far managed to boot a few times without the problem occuring, so it all looks good so far.

I will report back if the situation changes bacvk to the previous problem.

I confirm that the trunk version has fixed the problem.

Working great in xubuntu 64 bit after 10 reboots.

Got some logs now. Attaching

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm-gtk-greeter - 1.8.4-0ubuntu1

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lightdm-gtk-greeter (1.8.4-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1299397)
    - Really fix exit bug (LP: #1290575)
 -- Sean Davis <email address hidden> Sat, 29 Mar 2014 05:51:45 -0400