Light Display Manager

when autlogin with a timeout is used, it should be reapplied when the user logs out.

Bug #1302491 reported by Marc Balmer
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Light Display Manager
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell
Light Display Manager 1.11.4
1.10
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell
Light Display Manager 1.10.3
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell
Trusty
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell
Utopic
Fix Released
Medium
Robert Ancell

Bug Description

[Impact]
If LightDM is set up for timed login this only occurs on first login, i..e after a session logout timed login is not reattempted. This doesn't match the traditional behaviour of GDM. A common use case for timed login is kiosk setups where the greeter should never be displayed for any significant amount of time; this is currently impossible to set up with LightDM.

[Test Case]
1. Setup LightDM to do a timed login
2. Wait for timeout
(session starts)
3. Log out of session
Expected result:
The session is started again after the timeout.
Observed result:
The greeter is show forever.

[Regression potential]
There is some risk that someone might have been relying on the existing behaviour. The assumption is that most timed login users would prefer the new behaviour. There is a small risk that these changes may have broken something else, this has been reduced by using the regression tests.

See original description
Revision history for this message
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Makes sense to me.

Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 1.11.4
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
description: updated
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Utopic):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Utopic):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in lightdm:
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Utopic):
assignee: nobody → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Marc, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lighdm into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lighdm/1.10.3-0ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Robert Heller (heller) wrote :

Just letting people know: I installed 1.10.3 on our machines and it works as expected.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
tags: added: verification-dibe
removed: verification-needed
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-dibe
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.10.3-0ubuntu2

---------------
lightdm (1.10.3-0ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Refresh patches
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:24:51 +1300

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Marc Balmer (marc-wz6bkyh) wrote : Re: [Bug 1302491] when autlogin with a timeout is used, it should be reapplied when the user logs out.

> Am 10.12.2014 um 02:48 schrieb Launchpad Bug Tracker <email address hidden>:
>
> This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.10.3-0ubuntu2
>
> ---------------
> lightdm (1.10.3-0ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=medium
>
> * Refresh patches
> -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:24:51 +1300
>
> ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty)
> Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1302491
>
> Title:
> when autlogin with a timeout is used, it should be reapplied when the
> user logs out.
>
> Status in Light Display Manager:
> Fix Released
> Status in Light Display Manager 1.10 series:
> Fix Released
> Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in lightdm source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in lightdm source package in Utopic:
> Fix Released
>

Will this also be fixed in Precise? (which I would welcome a lot…)

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