pango-graphite renders gdm unusable

[jbatista]

Binary package hint: pango-graphite

Installing pango-graphite causes gdm and applications using it unusable. Symptoms:

1. Login window (gdm), namely toolbar at the bottom (showing the time) and user selector do not show up. The background is visible, however; the "drum" sound is also audible. The mouse pointer is visible. After that, no interaction is perceivable. The only solution is to switch to a virtual console (Ctrl+Alt+F1).

2. The first symptom was an unusable authentication window during screensave; namely, none showed up. The mouse pointer was visible and interacted normally, but otherwise, the authentication "window" doesn't show up.

The only solution to this problem was removing the pango-graphite package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pango-graphite (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-generic 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 30 23:48:28 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt:pt_PT:pt_BR:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_PT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pango-graphite

[jbatista (jmnbatista)]

ubuntu@lucid:~$ LANG=C apt-cache policy pango-graphite
pango-graphite:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.2-3.1
  Version table:
     0.9.2-3.1 0
        500 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu@lucid:~$

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, we think the bug has been fixed in a later version of Ubuntu - Maverick Meerkat.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035 and the links back to the upload in Debian, etc. for more info.

Please, if possible, test this in a later version of Ubuntu and see if the issue still remains, and report back here.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages

I do no think that it is a small enough change to simply SRU (although I thought so before {cf. my last comments on above bug}). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

It may even be appropriate to completely remove the Lucid version of the package from the archives as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Removing_Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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