unity8 fails to start as guest user
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Canonical System Image |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michał Sawicz | ||
lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
unity8 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Terry |
Bug Description
This is shown in unity8.log:
[2016-11-23 15:59:25.820868] mirserver: Starting
ERROR: /build/
Dynamic exception type: boost::
std::exception:
ERROR: /build/
Dynamic exception type: boost::
std::exception:
[2016-11-
initctl: No such variable: UNITY_MIR_SOCKET
running current zesty, but I had the same problem on yakkety too.
Related branches
- Robert Ancell: Approve
-
Diff: 25 lines (+4/-0)2 files modifieddata/apparmor/abstractions/lightdm (+1/-0)
data/apparmor/lightdm-guest-session.in (+3/-0)
- Josh Arenson: Approve
- Unity8 CI Bot: Approve (continuous-integration)
-
Diff: 283 lines (+129/-19)7 files modifiedcmake/modules/QmlTest.cmake (+1/-1)
plugins/Unity/Session/dbusunitysessionservice.cpp (+29/-3)
qml/Components/Dialogs.qml (+5/-5)
qml/Shell.qml (+3/-1)
tests/plugins/Unity/Session/CMakeLists.txt (+13/-1)
tests/plugins/Unity/Session/preload.c (+43/-0)
tests/plugins/Unity/Session/sessionbackendtest.cpp (+35/-8)
tags: | added: unity8-desktop |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
milestone: | none → u8c-1 |
assignee: | nobody → Michał Sawicz (saviq) |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Michael Terry (mterry) |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → In Progress |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
milestone: | u8c-1 → u8c-z |
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
The "Permission denied" error suggests the apparmor profile, or whatever else lightdm is doing special to the guest session, is the reason for this failure.
Can you check in syslog if you have a DENIED message from apparmor?