** Description changed: + [Impact] + The session indicator always uses gnome-session to end the session (log out), but gnome-session is not guaranteed to be available under, for example, a Unity8 desktop preview session. It should use Upstart where available. + + [Test Case] + + Install unity8-desktop-session and choose to log in to that session from + the LightDM login screen. You should be able to select "log out" from + the session-indicator indicator and have it bring you back to the login + screen. + + [Regression Potential] + + In the worst case this change could affect log out operations from + regular Unity 7 sessions and potentially other sessions that use the + session indicator. In such a case, the log out operation would fail + necessitating a reboot or manual session kill. + + [Other Info] + + This change has been in production use on later releases of Ubuntu (14.10 and later) without problems. + + Later version of the Unity 8 desktop session do not exit to the LightDM + login screen but instead restart Unity 8 and present the Unity 8 login + screen. This is a bug in Unity 8 and not related to indicator-session.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296814 Title: When Unity.Session is available, use its API for logging out Status in The Session Menu: Fix Released Status in Unity: New Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “unity8-desktop-session” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “indicator-session” source package in Trusty: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] The session indicator always uses gnome-session to end the session (log out), but gnome-session is not guaranteed to be available under, for example, a Unity8 desktop preview session. It should use Upstart where available. [Test Case] Install unity8-desktop-session and choose to log in to that session from the LightDM login screen. You should be able to select "log out" from the session-indicator indicator and have it bring you back to the login screen. [Regression Potential] In the worst case this change could affect log out operations from regular Unity 7 sessions and potentially other sessions that use the session indicator. In such a case, the log out operation would fail necessitating a reboot or manual session kill. [Other Info] This change has been in production use on later releases of Ubuntu (14.10 and later) without problems. Later version of the Unity 8 desktop session do not exit to the LightDM login screen but instead restart Unity 8 and present the Unity 8 login screen. This is a bug in Unity 8 and not related to indicator-session. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/1296814/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
