Reintroduce headless mode in GNOME Shell
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Shell |
Fix Released
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High
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Artful |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Artful |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
* I day before the 17.10 release, we had to revert some commits in GNOME Shell due to https:/
* Pinging upstream, they debugged it and found the real issue in mutter, and so fixed it, which will enable us to align again with upstream's repo.
* This should mostly be a no visible-effect for previously impacted users, but GNOME Shell shouldn't crash anymore in GDM (reverting then to Xorg), triggering apport on logging, and the users can then use Wayland instead of Xorg.
[Test Case]
* Install both mutter and gnome-shell to their latest version in -proposed
* Reboot
* Ensure you have an UI in GDM
* Log in into your session, check that you have an UI and everything is showing up as expected
[Regression Potential]
* Impact is a regression in GNOME Shell (showing up your entire UI) and not being able to log in. However, some of us (not impated by the bug) are already running latest version and don't see any issue. I have also asked 3 people being impacted by the bug and fixed by the revert to test upstream commits (prepared a package for them in a PPA), and they are running on it since yesterday, confirming Wayland is available.
* The regressions are quite straightfoward to see: either you have an UI in GDM or none.
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-failed verification-needed |
Hello Didier, or anyone else affected,
Accepted mutter into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ mutter/ 3.26.1- 2ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Testing/ EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification- needed- artful to verification- done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed- artful. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/QATeam/ PerformingSRUVe rification . Thank you in advance!