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ubiquity package

ubiquity fails to start under wayland

Bug #1702894 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned
Artful
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned
Bionic
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

artful desktop 20170707.1

Ubiquity fails to start from the live session.

From syslog
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: Ubiquity 17.04.9
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 655, in <module>
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: main(oem_config)
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 641, in main
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: install(query=options.query)
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 270, in install
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: wizard = ui.Wizard(distro)
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 239, in __init__
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: self.watch = Gdk.Cursor.new(Gdk.CursorType.WATCH)
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: TypeError: constructor returned NULL
Jul 7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:
Jul 7 12:27:52 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: log-output -t ubiquity /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
Jul 7 12:27:57 ubuntu kernel: [ 774.404538] update-notifier[4425]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007ffd666ed328 error 14 in update-notifier[5580e6078000+e000]

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Didier uploaded a casper change to default to an xorg session which should workaround that bug for now, still ubiquity should work under wayland

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - artful desktop 20170707.1 - ubiquity fails to start
+ ubiquity fails to start under wayland
Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
tags: added: ubiquity-17.04.9
tags: added: zesty
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This isn't going to happen for Ubuntu 17.10.

As a workaround, we're forcing the X session by default in the live environment on the ISO.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Artful):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
kamiar (kamiar321)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Confirmed → New
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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