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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tim, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-session into utopic-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
session/3.9.90-0ubuntu16.1 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!

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu Utopic)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385572

Title:
  gnome-session not shutting down cleanly

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-session source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in gnome-session source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed
Status in gnome-session source package in Vivid:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  We have had reports going back to 13.10 that gnome-shell extensions are disabled after restart (LP: #1236749), this has probably been our #1 unresolved bug for the last few cycles. While this is the main user visible bug probably other bugs caused by this for example (BGO: #745707)

  The cause was tracked down to gnome-session not shutting down cleanly
  under upstart. Although the underlying issue seems to be the order in
  which upstart takes down the various components in a user session, the
  side-effects themselves appear to be caused by gnome-session
  continuing to run when it should in fact be shutdown

  The fix updates the 103_kill_the_fail_whale.patch to force shutdown of
  gnome-session. This is inline with the fix upstream for (BGO: #745707)
  also.

  [ Test Case ]
  Note: This is only reproducible under upstart init.
  1. Load gdm
  2. Login to gnome-shell using GNOME from the session list
  3. enable some extensions
  4. reboot system from user menu.
  5. login again to find extensions disabled.

  [ Regression Potential ]
  Very low, the fail whale is meant to be fatal. The upstream dialog that is disabled in ubuntu does in fact cause gnome-session to get shutdown.

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