18.04.2 breaks xrdp

[Rushi]

I have observed the following on two different computers:

On both computers, running Ubuntu 18.04, I am able to install xrdp and log in remotely using a third computer via Reminna or Windows RDP client without any problems.

If I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.2 and install xrdp OR if I update my working 18.04 installation by running

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-18.04

then xrdp stops working. That is, when I login using an RDP client, I am presented with the xrdp login screen, but when I select xorg and try to login with my username and password, I see a blue screen for about a minute and then

connecting to sesman ip 127.0.0.1
sesman connect ok
sending login info to session manager, please wait...
login successful for display 10
started connecting
connection problem, giving up
some problem

The only difference between the working configuration and the broken one is Ubuntu 18.04 vs 18.04.2 (OR HWE installed using the above command).

Out of the two computers I tried one has nvidia graphics and one has intel on-board graphics. For the nvidia computer, I tried both nvidia and nouveau drivers to no avail.

Not sure if this is a problem with xrdp or xorg.
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ProblemType: Bug
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ron Widell (r-widell)]

It also affects Kubuntu 18.04.2

cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS \n \l

I moved /var/log/xrdp.log and /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log to a different location so they'd be smaller and easier to parse by booting a live system, then restarted this system.

Unfortunately, this time the xrdp daemon failed to start.

# systemctl status xrdp.service
● xrdp.service - xrdp daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/xrdp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-03-20 23:00:28 CDT; 8min ago
     Docs: man:xrdp(8)
           man:xrdp.ini(5)
  Process: 1668 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/xrdp $XRDP_OPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 1651 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /usr/share/xrdp/socksetup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 20 23:00:28 birdie systemd[1]: Starting xrdp daemon...
Mar 20 23:00:28 birdie systemd[1]: xrdp.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 20 23:00:28 birdie systemd[1]: xrdp.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 20 23:00:28 birdie systemd[1]: Failed to start xrdp daemon.

No sense trying to make a connection, and no xrdp.log was created. xrdp-sesman.log is pretty sparse:

# cat /var/log/xrdp-sesman.log
[20190320-22:55:28] [DEBUG] libscp initialized
[20190320-22:55:28] [DEBUG] Testing if xrdp-sesman can listen on 127.0.0.1 port 3350.
[20190320-22:55:28] [INFO ] starting xrdp-sesman with pid 1476
[20190320-22:55:29] [DEBUG] Closed socket 5 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20190320-22:55:29] [INFO ] listening to port 3350 on 127.0.0.1
[20190320-22:55:30] [INFO ] shutting down sesman 1
[20190320-22:55:30] [DEBUG] Closed socket 7 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20190320-23:00:27] [DEBUG] libscp initialized
[20190320-23:00:27] [DEBUG] Testing if xrdp-sesman can listen on 127.0.0.1 port 3350.
[20190320-23:00:27] [INFO ] starting xrdp-sesman with pid 1612
[20190320-23:00:27] [DEBUG] Closed socket 5 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)
[20190320-23:00:28] [INFO ] listening to port 3350 on 127.0.0.1
[20190320-23:00:28] [INFO ] shutting down sesman 1
[20190320-23:00:28] [DEBUG] Closed socket 7 (AF_INET6 ::1 port 3350)

I'll also attach the logs from when the daemon would start but the attempted connections (from a Windows 7 machine and an openSUSE machine using Krdc) consistently failed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

​​​​please test on cosmic or disco

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

So, there is a need to rebuild xrdp against HWE 18.04.

Maybe Ubuntu should provide a new binary package, let's say "xrdp-hwe-18.04"

For now, I've recompiled the same xrdp from Ubuntu 18.04, on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and uploaded to my "XRP PPA", here:

https://launchpad.net/~martinx/+archive/ubuntu/xrdp-hwe-18.04

To enjoy xrdp on Ubuntu 18.04 with HWE, just do:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martinx/xrdp-hwe-18.04
    sudo apt install xrdp xorgxrdp

;-)

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

And here is the xrdp-0.9.9 and xorgxrdp-0.2.9 for Bionic HWE!

https://launchpad.net/~martinx/+archive/ubuntu/xrdp-next

Awesome Friday night! LOL

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

I'll maintain the following repo:

https://launchpad.net/~martinx/+archive/ubuntu/xrdp-hwe-18.04

...until Ubuntu fixes it in an LTS version, maybe 20.04? That's okay...

[Rushi (rushik-1986)]

I can confirm that this works. Thank you Thiago!

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Ok, so xrdp in bionic builds modules for the xserver, which won't work with the HWE xserver. These modules got since split from src:xrdp as src:xorgxrdp. Note that xrdp in bionic did not have these modules, so this issue is new with bionic HWE and wasn't expected.

So it does look like xrdp in bionic would need a HWE version. BTW, does your xrdp-next built against HWE work with stock X?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

src:xrdp-hwe-18.04 uploaded to ppa:canonical-x/x-staging, please test!

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

..by making sure xrdp-hwe-18.04 is installed

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Confirmed, your staging PPA fixes it for our Hyper-V image

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Rushi, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xrdp-hwe-18.04 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xrdp-hwe-18.04/0.9.5-2~18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Confirmed this works in the Hyper-V 18.04 desktop image.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xrdp-hwe-18.04 - 0.9.5-2~18.04.1

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xrdp-hwe-18.04 (0.9.5-2~18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Rename for 18.04.3 HWE stack update. (LP: #1817225)
    - build only xorgxrdp-hwe-18.04 binary

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Jul 2019 23:52:02 +0300

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for xrdp-hwe-18.04 has completed successfully and the package has now been 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.