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[Georg Sauthoff <1890394@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have access to a machine where Ubuntu Focal is installed.

AFAICS, this issue currently breaks Ubuntu Bionic LTS completely for
non-technical users running Lxde (e.g. Lubuntu) who regularly apply
updates (as recommended) without a simple work-around being available.

With non-technical users I'm referring to users who aren't comfortable
on the command line. That means they can't just log into the console and
enable the proposed updates etc.

So I consider this as a pretty serious issue for an LTS release.

Releasing it rather earlier than later would probably lead to less
people being affected (i.e. those who haven't installed the latest
breaking updates yet).

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Title:
  Lightdm-gtk-greeter coredump during boot with recent systemd versions

Status in lightdm-gtk-greeter package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lightdm-gtk-greeter source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in lightdm-gtk-greeter source package in Groovy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * Impact
  The lightdm-gtk-greeter often segfaults on VMs

  * Test case
  - start a xubuntu livesession in a VM and logout
  -> you should get a greeter to log in
  (or install xubuntu in a VM)

  * Regression potential
  the mlockall call was supposed to provide improved security but isn't working, it was already commented out some cycles ago in unity-greeter, upstream and it other distributions

  ------------------

  Upstream:https://github.com/Xubuntu/lightdm-gtk-greeter/issues/77

  This is one of the many core dumps on `journalctl` for a given boot
  (dumps multiple times before starting) :

  **See it on upstream bug report**

  System Details:

  System:
  Kernel: 5.8.0-12-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop:
  Xfce 4.14.2
  Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) (*Proposed)

  lightdm                       1.30.0-0ubuntu3.1: amd64
  lightdm-gtk-greeter           2.0.6-0ubuntu1:amd64
  lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings  1.2.2-3
  linux-firmware                1.189
  ------------------------------------------------------
  systemd,systemd-coredump,
  systemd-sysv                                245.7-1ubuntu1
  ------------------------------------------------------

  Current Behaviour:

  On boot screen blinks for 2-3 times (probably the segmentation fault)
  but eventually starts after 1-2 minutes.

  Expected Behaviour:

  Greeter would appear properly after boot.

  Note: Some other systemd services are also failing on proposed, not
  sure if related.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.6-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-12.13-generic 5.8.0-rc7
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu43
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Wed Aug  5 12:58:44 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-17 (109 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200416)
  SourcePackage: lightdm-gtk-greeter
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-08-04 (0 days ago)

  modified.conffile..etc.lightdm.lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf:
  [greeter]
   indicators = ~session;~language;~a11y;~clock;~power
   default-user-image = /home/korte/Pictures/profile/profile.jpeg
  mtime.conffile..etc.lightdm.lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf: 2020-06-27T09:26:56.022638

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