biometryd upstart job triggers reboot watchdog

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

arale/rc-proposed 359

The devices (verified on arale and krillin) don't boot on first boot after upgrade. It boots fine after forcing a reboot with the power button.

[Víctor R. Ruiz (vrruiz)]

Reproduced in

current build number: 10
device name: turbo
channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/meizu-pd.en-proposed

[Víctor R. Ruiz (vrruiz)]

Reproduced also in

current build number: 73
device name: frieza
channel: ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris-pd.en-proposed

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

On krillin rc-proposed 365 I reproduced this issue by upgrading the following packages (content of silo 41 https://requests.ci-train.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/1199)

biometryd-bin
libbiometryd0
qml-module-biometryd accountsservice-ubuntu-schemas
accountsservice-ubuntu-touch-schemas
gsettings-ubuntu-schemas
libsystemsettings1
qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-settings-components
ubuntu-system-settings
unity8
unity8-common
unity8-private

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

it is also reproducible with a reset of the device.

Removing biometryd upstart job /fixes/ the issue.

[Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper)]

Not sure about anyone else, but power cycling isn't getting my devices to boot. I'm just planning to skip this image and get automated tests running again on the next one.

[dinamic (dinamic6661)]

same here arale rc-proposed/r360 but started with r359

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

From syslog on a device affected:

root@ubuntu-phablet:~# grep watchdog /var/log/syslog
Jun 27 07:45:13 ubuntu-phablet watchdog: 'biometryd' (instance '') hit respawn limit - rebooting
Jun 27 07:49:35 ubuntu-phablet watchdog: 'biometryd' (instance '') hit respawn limit - not rebooting as rebooted recently

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

 biometryd (0.0.1+15.04.20160627.2-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium
 .
   * If default device cannot be instantiated, exit cleanly with success
     to prevent respawn watchdog from triggering.