Bug#840660: lightdm: Error using VT_WAITACTIVE 7 on /dev/tty0: Interrupted system call

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Subject: Bug#840660: lightdm: Error using VT_WAITACTIVE 7 on /dev/tty0: Interrupted system call
From: Sergio Gelato <sergio.gelato@astro.su.se>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 08:58:44 +0000
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Reply-to: Sergio Gelato <sergio.gelato@astro.su.se>, 840660@bugs.debian.org
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It looks to me like upstream commit robert.ancell@canonical.com-20170213034648-wvwh9evai55o7sm5, first released in lightdm 1.21.4, should adequately address this (by retrying the system call on EINTR). Am cherry-picking this into 1.18.3, will test then tag this bug accordingly.

(Note to other would-be cherry-pickers: the commit depends on an earlier one, michael.terry@canonical.com-20161020085337-efsjna95ma6yio89.)

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