Given the only real continued development in this area is by the ayatana
project perhaps the solution here should be for cinnamon to swap to the
ayatana equivalent packages.

Just a thought.


On Wed, 20 Sept 2023, 18:55 Erich Eickmeyer, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Upon investigation, we have determined the rdepends in question:
>
> cinnamon-core
>  +-- Depends: lightdm
>  ..+-- Depends: unity-greeter
>  ....+-- Depends: indicator-applet
>  ......+-- Recommends: indicator-keyboard
>
> Unfortunately, this means it cannot be removed from the seed/meta, and
> therefore, the meta is not a factor. The problem lies in the indicator,
> which appears abandoned upstream and needs to be patched for this to
> work without crashing. This is, of course, assuming the autopkgtests are
> correct because, as you said, Tim, you couldn't reproduce in a lxd vm.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntucinnamon-meta (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntucinnamon-meta (Ubuntu)
>      Assignee: Joshua Peisach (itzswirlz) => (unassigned)
>
> ** Changed in: indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => Critical
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2036764
>
> Title:
>   indicator keyboard crashes when upgrading from lunar->mantic on ubuntu
>   cinnamon
>
> Status in indicator-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
>   New
> Status in ubuntucinnamon-meta package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   Log snippet:
>
>   JournalErrors:
>    Sep 20 14:52:28 autopkgtest kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 164 callbacks
> suppressed
>    Sep 20 14:52:32 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:32 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown username
> "polkitd" in message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:32 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown username
> "polkitd" in message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:32 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:32 autopkgtest systemd[1]: multipathd.socket: Socket
> service multipathd.service already active, refusing.
>    Sep 20 14:52:32 autopkgtest systemd[1]: Failed to listen on
> multipathd.socket - multipathd control socket.
>    Sep 20 14:52:34 autopkgtest kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 205 callbacks
> suppressed
>    Sep 20 14:52:34 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:34 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:35 autopkgtest indicator-keybo[747]: g_variant_ref:
> assertion 'value != NULL' failed
>    Sep 20 14:52:36 autopkgtest systemd-resolved[27430]: mDNS-IPv4: There
> appears to be another mDNS responder running, or previously
> systemd-resolved crashed with some outstanding transfers.
>    Sep 20 14:52:36 autopkgtest systemd-resolved[27430]: mDNS-IPv6: There
> appears to be another mDNS responder running, or previously
> systemd-resolved crashed with some outstanding transfers.
>    Sep 20 14:52:38 autopkgtest systemd[653]: indicator-keyboard.service:
> Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
>    Sep 20 14:52:38 autopkgtest systemd[653]: indicator-keyboard.service:
> Failed with result 'core-dump'.
>    Sep 20 14:52:38 autopkgtest indicator-keybo[27565]:
> gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>    Sep 20 14:52:42 autopkgtest kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 193 callbacks
> suppressed
>    Sep 20 14:52:42 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:42 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:42 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>    Sep 20 14:52:42 autopkgtest dbus-daemon[415]: Unknown group "power" in
> message bus configuration file
>   Package: indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+19.10.20220803-0ubuntu1
>
>   I'll attach the full upgrade log.
>
>   This bug was discovered by using autopkgtest. You can reproduce by
>   installing autopkgtest, auto-upgrade-testing and cloning auto-upgrade-
>   testing-specifications and running this from the parent directory:
>
>   sudo --preserve-env=AUTOPKGTEST_APT_SOURCES_FILE python3 -m
>   upgrade_testing.command_line -c auto-upgrade-testing-
>   specifications/profiles/ubuntu-lunar-mantic-ubuntucinnamon-
>   amd64_qemu.yaml --provision --results-dir /home/$USER/upgrade_cinnamon
>   --adt-args=--timeout-factor=10
>
>   I'll attach the full logs below. I'm also trying to recreate using an
>   lxd container
>
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