System appears to use wayland despite my having Wayland Enable set to false.

[Seija K.]

1. Ubuntu 18.10
2. xorg:
  Installed: 1:7.7+19ubuntu8
Version table:
 *** 1:7.7+19ubuntu8 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Basically, when I rebooted the computer, the graphics were scrambled and the system behaved as it did when wayland was enabled despite the .conf file saying "WaylandEnabled=False", and that line being uncommented.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Edit the .conf file to uncomment "WaylandEnabled"
2. Reboot the machine
3. Wait 2 days before booting it back up
4. Notice the machine is using Wayland despite the conf file specifying otherwise.

Expected Results:
Machine runs with the behavior of Xorg.

Actual Results:
Machine appears to run Wayland.

Workaround: Edit the conf file again, and then reboot.

In respect to the diagnostics taken, this issue occurred before I took the diagnostics and was able to use Firefox to write this report. This at around 9:56 PM, EDT on March 31, 2019.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-16.17-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 31 22:18:52 2019
DistUpgraded: 2018-11-20 23:52:16,217 ERROR got error from PostInstallScript ./xorg_fix_proprietary.py (g-exec-error-quark: Failed to execute child process “./xorg_fix_proprietary.py” (No such file or directory) (8))
DistroCodename: cosmic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM] [1002:6779] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM] [1682:3207]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-07 (175 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
MachineType: Gateway DX4860
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-16-generic root=UUID=4c74a6f6-2050-43cf-96aa-f3d050456a3d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-11-21 (130 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/01/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P02-A1
dmi.board.name: IPISB-VR
dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
dmi.board.version: 1.01
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP02-A1:bd08/01/2011:svnGateway:pnDX4860:pvr:rvnGateway:rnIPISB-VR:rvr1.01:cvnGateway:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Gateway Desktop
dmi.product.name: DX4860
dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.95-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.10.2
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.10.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu2.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-3

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

When you think Wayland is being used by accident, please run:

  xrandr > newxrandr.txt

and send us the file 'newxrandr.txt'.

Also, the correct setting to disable Wayland in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf is:

  WaylandEnable=false

and is not:

  WaylandEnabled=False

[Seija K. (rose128)]

I put WaylandEnable=false in the actual .conf file. I apologize for the misspelling in the report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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