Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Bug #1284017 - comment added

[Patrik Nilsson <nipatriknilsson@xxxxxxxxx>]

You wrote in the bug report:
> Of great importance is that this only happens if I choose NOT to
> auto-login! But it's not consistently reproducible so I need to hack
> away and see if I can find a truly 100% reproducible test-case.

I use auto-login in Ubuntu 12.10 and there might be an issue WHEN the
user is registered as logged in.

Consider the following: I run a bash-script that need root privileges at
login. The script is registered with "Startup Applications" and is run
with "gnome-terminal -e "sudo -u root command arg1 arg2"".

If I don't use "-u root" and put myself (patrik) in sudoers and allow me
to run the command without password, the password is still asked for.
Probably the command is run before I'm registered as logged in.

But instead, If I use "-u root" and in the sudoers put "root ALL=(root)
NOPASSWD: command", the command will run without password prompt.

Maybe a command is run that need to have a user registered, but when you
auto-login all processes of init are not completely finished.

/Patrik



On 02/26/2014 07:38 PM, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> That's proving to be somewhat difficult for me to reliably reproduce so
> additional testing will be needed.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1284017
>
> I suppose if we wanted to mention it in the release notes we might say
> something like:
>
> In rare circumstances 'gdm' may display slowly enough to lead a user to
> think the system is frozen, but if you're patient gdm will load and
> you'll get an automated bug report indicating "gnome-shell crashed with
> SIGABRT in g_thread_abort()" which is bug #1284017. This appears to only
> effect the first boot after installation, subsequent boots seem to be
> OK, and this is being investigated.
>
> But Ali is better with words than I am.
>
> Lance
>
>

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