Bug#798097: Restarting logind kills Xserver
On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:59:26 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Julien
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 09:39:11 +0200 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 13:16:48 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:22:24 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We dropped the logind restart in systemd_226-4 for now and the
> > > > xserver-xorg-core package gained a Breaks against older systemd versions.
> > > >
> > > > This is not a real fix yet, but it should be sufficient to not be RC.
> > > >
> > > > Thus downgrading to important. We still should change both logind and
> > > > Xorg so logind can be restarted safely without wreaking havoc.
> > >
> > > Upstream logind/systemd has been fixed so it can be restarted safely
> > > now, see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5600
> > >
> > > This change is in systemd v234.
> > > I suggest that we ship a patch that reverts [1] and xserver-xorg bumps
> > > the breaks against systemd to << 234.
> > >
> > I don't want to ship a debian-specific patch for this. Is there a way
> > for Xorg to detect logind has that bug fix?
> >
>
> This patch was merged upstream. See
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/merge_requests/150
>
> Would be great if this patch could be applied for buster. This would
> mean I could add the logind to systemd's postinst in buster+1.
> If we don't get this Xorg fix into buster, we'd have to wait another
> full release cycle.
>
> Julien, in case you are busy, I could offer to NMU.
> WDYT?
Bringing Timo and Andreas into the loop here as well.
Would welcome your thoughts on how to proceed here.
Regards,
Michael
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