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postinst restarts gdm on hardy -> lucid upgrade

Bug #568292 reported by Michael Vogt on 2010-04-22

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	eglibc (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Unassigned
	Lucid	Fix Released	Critical	Unassigned

Bug Description

On a hardy -> lucid upgrade gdm is restarted and the user is kicked out of his session. The case where initscripts are in use is not handlded.

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/eglibc

Michael Vogt (mvo) on 2010-04-22

Changed in eglibc (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance:	Undecided → Critical
status:	New → Confirmed

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2010-04-22:

patch that should fix the issue Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain)

As discussed on irc we only need to rerstart/reload the old gdm that uses a initscript. The new gdm has a different architecture and does not require a restart.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-04-22:

This bug was fixed in the package eglibc - 2.11.1-0ubuntu7

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eglibc (2.11.1-0ubuntu7) lucid; urgency=low

  * Fix logic that tests if gdm needs a restart or a reload
    to handle both the initscript and upstart cases. This fixes
    a gdm restart during a hardy to lucid upgrade (LP: #568292)
-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:40:19 +0200