lightdm exits on SIGHUP

Bug #960157 reported by Lauri Tirkkonen
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Light Display Manager
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
1.10
Fix Committed
Medium
Unassigned
1.16
Fix Committed
Medium
Unassigned
1.18
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
1.2
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned
lightdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Trusty
Fix Committed
Medium
Unassigned
Xenial
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Yakkety
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]
LightDM quits when it receives SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 or SIGHUP. But convention these signals should not quit a service (they should get it to dump state, reload configuration etc).

[Test Case]
1. Start lightdm
2. sudo killall -SIGHUP lightdm

Expected result:
Nothing happens

Observed result:
LightDM restarts

[Regression Potential]
Low. We now just quit only on SIGTERM and SIGINT.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in lightdm:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Triaged
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in lightdm:
milestone: none → 1.19.0
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
description: updated
Changed in lightdm:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.19.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
lightdm (1.19.0-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Use /dev/tty0 instead of /dev/console for VT operations (LP: #1566073)
    - Don't quit on SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 or SIGHUP (LP: #960157)
    - Improve XDMCP IPv6 address selection (LP: #1575200)
    - Set XDMCP hostname field in to system hostname or configured value
      (LP: #1578442)
    - Allow fcitx and mozc to run in guest session (LP: #1509829)
    - Fix lxsession running in guest session
    - Drop support for legacy XMir
    - Fix g_spawn compiler warning
  * debian/rules:
    - Fix usage of dh_installinit (LP: #1292990)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 05 May 2016 12:23:45 +1200

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Lauri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lightdm into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/1.18.2-0ubuntu1 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
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Confirmed fixed in Xenial.

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.18.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
lightdm (1.18.2-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Don't quit on SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 or SIGHUP (LP: #960157)
    - Use MIR_SERVER_HOST_SOCKET instead of MIR_SOCKET to report compositor
      socket to sessions. This used to work but no longer works in Mir 0.21
      (LP: #1583624)
    - Use only a single compositor on xlocal seats (LP: #1594229)
    - Fix Mir greeter log filename having "(null)" in the name (LP: #1590582)
    - Set XDMCP hostname field in to system hostname or configured value
      (LP: #1578442)
    - Improve XDMCP IPv6 address selection (LP: #1575200)
    - Allow fcitx and mozc to run in guest session (LP: #1509829)
    - Fix uninitialized memory errors
  * debian/lightdm.dirs:
    - Ensure user configuration directories /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d and
      /etc/guest-session exist
  * debian/guest-account.sh:
  * debian/guest-session-setup.sh:
    - Source prefs.sh as privileged user to allow user modification
      (LP: #1581853)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:49:01 +1200

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for lightdm has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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