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[Bug 1450279] Re: gnome flashback session fails to end on logout in Trusty

 

1. Can not reproduce with Ubuntu 15.04 in virtualbox and Ubuntu 15.10 on
real hardware.

Installed xrdp and added this to ~/.xsession:
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="GNOME-Flashback:Unity"
gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback-metacity --disable-acceleration-check --debug &> test.log

2. Tried to reproduce with Ubuntu 14.04 in virtualbox, but after logging
in something is crashing and session is closed.

Installed xrdp and added this to ~/.xsession:
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="Unity"
gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback --disable-acceleration-check --debug &> test.log

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Title:
  gnome flashback session fails to end on logout in Trusty

Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On logout, the window changes to a blank purple screen and never closes.
  All the processes are still running.

  This is a big problem because in Trusty, Unity needs hardware acceleration, so you cannot use Unity in any remote access scenario (like using windows remote desktop to access a VMware vSphere Ubuntu Trusty vm with xrdp) where hardware acceleration is not available.
  Many people are trying to use alternative desktops, like gnome-flashback or xfce (xfce seems to have too many downsides in this situation for me).

  This is a follow on from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/1251281 where gnome-session-flashback was modified to accept a new flag (--disable-acceleration-check) so that a gnome flashback session could be started.
  Thanks to the patch for 1251281 we can now run gnome flashback but it doesn't logout properly, which makes it unusable.

  Environment:
  Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (up to date)
  gnome-session-flashback 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12.2
  gnome-session 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1

  ~/.xsession :
   gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback --disable-acceleration-check

  Using Windows 7 Remote Desktop to connect to Ubuntu vm.
  Login to xrdp using module sesman-Xvnc

   I have attached the ~/.xsession-errors file.

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