Hello Ursula, or anyone else affected, Accepted unity-greeter into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity- greeter/0.2.9-0ubuntu1.3 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 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 to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. 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/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Description changed: [Impact] Unity Greeter can crash when X clients create X windows. This results in Ubuntu going to failsafe mode. When an X window appears Unity Greeter receives a Map event. Unity Greeter attempts to get a GdkWindow object for the window in the event. If the window was destroyed before it does this it gets a NULL pointer. Unity Greeter did not check for this case. [Test Case] This is a bug that only occurs if windows rapidly appear and disappear. Can be verified on machines that are exhibiting the problem (perhaps linked to indicators failing to start). Check errors.ubuntu.com shows problem does not occur when fix applied. + [Errors Bucket] + https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/sbin/unity-greeter%3A11%3Agdk_window_get_type_hint%3Aunity_greeter_focus_upon_map%3A_unity_greeter_focus_upon_map_gdk_filter_func%3Agdk_event_apply_filters%3Agdk_event_source_translate_event [Regression Potential] Low, the change just checks for the NULL pointer and ignores the map event. ** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu Precise) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048131 Title: unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in gdk_window_get_type_hint() Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Precise: Fix Committed Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Quantal: Triaged Status in “unity-greeter” source package in Saucy: Triaged Bug description: [Impact] Unity Greeter can crash when X clients create X windows. This results in Ubuntu going to failsafe mode. When an X window appears Unity Greeter receives a Map event. Unity Greeter attempts to get a GdkWindow object for the window in the event. If the window was destroyed before it does this it gets a NULL pointer. Unity Greeter did not check for this case. [Test Case] This is a bug that only occurs if windows rapidly appear and disappear. Can be verified on machines that are exhibiting the problem (perhaps linked to indicators failing to start). Check errors.ubuntu.com shows problem does not occur when fix applied. [Errors Bucket] https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/sbin/unity-greeter%3A11%3Agdk_window_get_type_hint%3Aunity_greeter_focus_upon_map%3A_unity_greeter_focus_upon_map_gdk_filter_func%3Agdk_event_apply_filters%3Agdk_event_source_translate_event [Regression Potential] Low, the change just checks for the NULL pointer and ignores the map event. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1048131/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp