[regression] Mir servers choose graphics-dummy (or no driver at all) over mesa-kms on a desktop

Workaround: --vt 1

That said, Mir 0.17.1 also fails but at least it fails for the right reason -- trying to use mesa-kms...

[1450666238.373712] mirserver: Selected driver: mesa-kms (version 0.17.1)
ERROR: /build/mir-sTjxjQ/mir-0.17.1+16.04.20151105.1/src/platforms/mesa/server/common/display_helpers.cpp(256): Throw in function int mir::graphics::mesa::helpers::DRMHelper::open_drm_device(const std::shared_ptr<mir::udev::Context>&)
Dynamic exception type: boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<std::runtime_error> >
std::exception::what: Error opening DRM device
22, "Invalid argument"

So the behaviour seem in Mir 0.19 is a step backwards.

It appears in fixing the special case of nested for bug 1515558, we forgot to also keep non-nested working.

Essentially we just need mesa-kms to always return at least "supported", and that may be trumped by other drivers like android or proprietary drivers. But mesa-kms should never report itself as "unsupported".

Correction: It was probably the fix for bug 1506707 that caused this.

Blocked by bug 1528135, which makes fixing this bug silently exit and less useful than not fixing it right now :/

Fix committed into lp:mir at revision None, scheduled for release in mir, milestone 0.19.0

This bug was fixed in the package mir - 0.19.0+16.04.20160128-0ubuntu1

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mir (0.19.0+16.04.20160128-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Brandon Schaefer ]
  * New upstream release 0.19.0
    - API summary:
      . mirclient abi unchanged at 9
      . mirserver abi bumped to 37
      . mircommon abi unchanged at 5
      . mirplatform abi unchanged at 11
      . mirprotobuf abi unchanged at 3
      . mirplatformgraphics abi bumped to 7
      . mirclientplatform abi bumped to 4
      . mirinputplatform abi bumped to 5
      . mircookie abi bumped to 2
    - Bug fix:
      . Mir servers crash on mouse input (LP: #1528438)
      . Pinch to zoom not working reliably (LP: #1531517)
      . Passing DisplayConfiguration scale property from
        nested server to host appears to not work (LP: #1535780)
      . Various TSan reports when running test suite
        on a mir tsan enabled build (LP: #1523647)
      . Buffer leak during repeated mirscreencasts
        causes server to be killed (LP: #1523900)
      . Cursor now displays correctly (LP: #1526779)
      .ProgramOption::parse_file() reports problems to cerr (LP: #1190165)
      . Nested servers can select wrong platform (LP: #1515558)
      . There seems to be missing RTTI information
         when linking with UBSan enabled (LP: #1521930)
      . Mir threadsanitizer build fails with GCC (LP: #1522581)
      . After "make install" mir_demo_server cannot
        find shared object file in /usr/local/lib (LP: #1522836)
      . Fixed a test in TestClientInput (LP: #1523965)
      . Mir servers choose graphics-dummy (or no driver at all)
        over mesa-kms on a desktop (LP: #1528082)
      . Function mir_event_get_close_surface_event is never used (LP: #1447690)
      . mir::input::Surface::consume(MirEvent const& event)
        should not take a reference to an opaque type (LP: #1450797)
      . lintian: E: mir-doc: privacy-breach-logo (LP: #1483471)

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * No-change rebuild.

 -- Brandon Schaefer <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:19:47 +0000