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Merge lp:~vanvugt/mir/kill-leaky-modules into lp:mir

Proposed by Daniel van Vugt
Status: Rejected
Rejected by: Daniel van Vugt
Proposed branch: lp:~vanvugt/mir/kill-leaky-modules
Merge into: lp:mir
Diff against target: 18 lines (+8/-0)
1 file modified
debian/control (+8/-0)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp:~vanvugt/mir/kill-leaky-modules
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
PS Jenkins bot (community) continuous-integration Needs Fixing
Alan Griffiths Disapprove
Mir CI Bot continuous-integration Needs Fixing
Review via email: mp+284565@code.launchpad.net

Commit message

Fix LP: #1526658 and LP: #1527449, harder!

Coerce dpkg to remove broken packages during upgrade. This provides a
retrospective fix for the present moment where the older packages being
superseded don't yet contain the leak fixes for those bugs.

This should solve most cases of Unity8 failing to start (black
screen).

Description of the change

Seems to work too:

$ sudo dpkg -i mir-client-platform-mesa4_0.19.0-0ubuntu2vv1_amd64.deb
dpkg: considering removing mir-client-platform-mesa2:amd64 in favour of mir-client-platform-mesa4:amd64 ...
dpkg: yes, will remove mir-client-platform-mesa2:amd64 in favour of mir-client-platform-mesa4:amd64
dpkg: considering removing mir-client-platform-mesa3:amd64 in favour of mir-client-platform-mesa4:amd64 ...
dpkg: yes, will remove mir-client-platform-mesa3:amd64 in favour of mir-client-platform-mesa4:amd64
(Reading database ... 251199 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mir-client-platform-mesa4_0.19.0-0ubuntu2vv1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mir-client-platform-mesa4:amd64 (0.19.0-0ubuntu2vv1) over (0.19.0-0ubuntu2vv1) ...
Setting up mir-client-platform-mesa4:amd64 (0.19.0-0ubuntu2vv1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...

And then my Mir clients start working again.

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Mir CI Bot (mir-ci-bot) wrote :

FAILED: Continuous integration, rev:3281
https://mir-jenkins.ubuntu.com/job/mir-ci/198/
Executed test runs:
    None: https://mir-jenkins.ubuntu.com/job/generic-update-mp/199/console

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review: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
lp:~vanvugt/mir/kill-leaky-modules updated
3282. By Daniel van Vugt

Try again Jenkins

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Mir CI Bot (mir-ci-bot) wrote :

FAILED: Continuous integration, rev:3282
https://mir-jenkins.ubuntu.com/job/mir-ci/199/
Executed test runs:
    None: https://mir-jenkins.ubuntu.com/job/generic-update-mp/200/console

Click here to trigger a rebuild:
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review: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

As discussed on lp:~alan-griffiths/mir/fix-1526658/ I think this workaround is questionable; and, with the fix proposed there, unnecessary.

Also it fails the abi checks.

review: Disapprove
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review: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)

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3282. By Daniel van Vugt

Try again Jenkins

3281. By Daniel van Vugt

Fix LP: #1526658 and LP: #1527449, harder!

Coerce dpkg to remove broken packages during upgrade. This provides a
retrospective fix for the present moment where the older packages being
superseded don't yet contain the leak fixes for those bugs.

Theoretically this should solve most cases of Unity8 failing to start
with a black screen.

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1=== modified file 'debian/control'
2--- debian/control 2016-01-29 08:18:22 +0000
3+++ debian/control 2016-02-01 09:53:50 +0000
4@@ -352,6 +352,14 @@
5 Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
6 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
7 ${shlibs:Depends}
8+# Please remove broken versions, which will cause serious bugs if they're
9+# still installed (LP: #1526658) (LP: #1527449).
10+Conflicts: mir-client-platform-mesa3,
11+ mir-client-platform-mesa2,
12+ mir-client-platform-mesa1
13+Replaces: mir-client-platform-mesa3,
14+ mir-client-platform-mesa2,
15+ mir-client-platform-mesa1
16 Description: Display server for Ubuntu - client platform library for Mesa
17 Mir is a display server running on linux systems, with a focus on efficiency,
18 robust operation and a well-defined driver model.

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