Mir

[snap] Can't ever VT switch (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) while the deb2snap Mir service is running

Bug #1445553 reported by Daniel van Vugt on 2015-04-17
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Bug Description

Can't ever VT switch (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) while the Mir service is running.

This doesn't just happen for mir_demo_server_minimal but also mir_proving_server where it definitely should work. So it looks like the Mir service created by deb2snap is missing some privilege required to VT-switch (tty group??).

summary: - Can't ever VT switch (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) while the Mir service is running
+ Can't ever VT switch (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) while the deb2snap Mir service is
+ running

That would be surprising, but not impossible.

The Mir framework package is running unconfined as root. There's very little it shouldn't be able to do.

Michael Terry (mterry) on 2015-04-24
summary: - Can't ever VT switch (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) while the deb2snap Mir service is
- running
+ [snap] Can't ever VT switch (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) while the deb2snap Mir service
+ is running
tags: added: snap
no longer affects: deb2snap
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Invalid for Mir. The mir demos work fine.

It's only when packaged for snappy that the bug exists.

Changed in mir:
status: New → Invalid
status: Invalid → New
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Then again, we don't have a valid project to log snappy bugs against :(

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Also if you're building an appliance it might be a *feature* that VT switching doesn't work. Still would be nice to know why...

tags: added: vt
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Apparently some other impassable bugs are magically fixed since Snappy became an official release. This needs retesting.

Changed in mir:
status: New → Incomplete
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Mir because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in mir:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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