Cancelling an ongoing verification via Escape key doesn't work

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

[ Impact ]

When an identification is in progress, we can't cancel the user verification via Escape key

[ Test case ]

- Start authenticating an user (using a wrong password may make this easier to trigger)
- Hit Escape
- Authentication is cancelled and user can put PIN / password again

[ Regression potential ]

Authentication fails even if it should not, user authentication may lead to user to see the user lists under gdm when not expected.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted gnome-shell (3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

update-manager/1:20.04.10.6 (ppc64el, amd64, armhf, s390x, arm64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#gnome-shell

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Hitting escape to cancel authentication works promptly now

❯ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installato: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Candidato: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 400
        400 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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gnome-shell (3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1921963):
    - Improve login screen accessibility
    - Prefer image-data hint over app-icon in notifications
    - Plugged leak
    - Fixed crashes
  * debian/patches:
    - Correctly handle login cancellation and failures (LP: #1915066)
    - Show errors on fingerprint failures and limit retries (LP: #1865838)
    - gdm: Don't try to retry authenticating when the service is unavailable
      (LP: #1915570)
    - Enable to use Escape to cancel auth requests (with limits) (LP: #1921929)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:50:16 +0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-shell has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.