Comment 15 for bug 1727842

I did some testing during the last days, and still this bug remains really strange.. I could not find a way to really reliable reproduce it or make it disappear.

I did several clean test installations of Ubuntu 17.10 and made the following steps after installation:
- First boot, log in (Gnome desktop starts)
- Install Unity: apt install unity-session, reboot
- Second boot, select Unity at GDM login
- Test if media keys, power button etc. work. Usually, it seems that the bug does _not_ appear on this second boot.
- Do nothing else, reboot.
- Third boot: Log in to Unity, test again, if keys work. Usually, the bug appears this time.
- On further reboots of the system, the bug may appear or not.

Then I did some testing with running 'unity-session-daemon --debug -r', and found out that it is possible to make the bug randomly appear or disappear by restarting unity-session-daemon.
The first briefly tests were run on my clean test installation, and afterwards I did some more exhaustive testing on my "main" Ubuntu installation, where the bug had appeared permanently so far.

During this "exhaustive testing" I repeatedly restarted u-s-d and checked every time if the keys were working. I had to do this approximately 15 times, until the bug disappeared for the first time and the keys worked!

I am attaching two log files:
- One containing a log of unity-settings-daemon where media keys etc. _did_ work
- Another one with a log of u-s-d where the bug appeared and they didn't work

Kind regards,
Jan