unity8-dash stops running

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Conditions to reproduce are not clear but *sometimes* unity8-dash exits and there is no way to recover other than rebooting the phone by a long press on the power button.

I can still launch apps from the launcher, but the process unity8-dash is not running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu RTM 14.09
Package: unity8 8.02+15.04.20150107~rtm-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: armhf
Date: Tue Jan 13 09:14:17 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-12 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) - armhf (20150112-030205)
SourcePackage: unity8
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

unity8 log when it happens.
The following message are displayed in the log

qtmir.applications: Dash doesn't seem to be running... Ignoring.
...
qtmir.applications: ApplicationManager::requestFocusApplication - appId= "unity8-dash"
No such running application with appId= "unity8-dash"
...

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Do you get any interesting .crash files? Can you also check unity8-dash.log? Any idea on even rough steps to reproduce?

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Oh and also, `initctl status unity8-dash`?

I wonder if we should make qtmir check the status of unity8-dash job and potentially start it when something's requesting to focus the dash but it's not running.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

here are latest unity8-dash log files and from when it happened.
There is no crash file matching this issue. It seems that the dash just existed or had been killed.
I've no steps to reproduce at the moment even rough. I noticed that the dash was not here when I resumed the phone and the home button didn't do anything.

[HuangZhiquan (huangzhiquan)]

the scopes is loading and loading,and blink any 3s,i could see the dash start-stop-start-stop all the way

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Huang, your issue is actually bug #1418176, it's being fixed now, you can grab the fixed packages from the PPA below.

https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/landing-008

[HuangZhiquan (huangzhiquan)]

ok,i have tried it(pull unity-scopes-shell from launchpad、debuild and install it),and then successed, thanks