Bug#771946: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#771946: lightdm: When dbus service restarted lightdm terminates and leave desktop in unworking state

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2014-12-03 at 20:12 +0200, George Shuklin wrote:
> Package: lightdm
> Version: 1.10.3-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> When dbus is restarted (service dbus restart) or during update, lightdm 
> crashes
> (or just terminate?) and leave desktop in unresponsive state.
> 
> If PC have PS/2 keyboard, it works, but USB keyboard does not and user can not
> longer even restart lightdm from local machine.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> service dbus restart
> 
> Expected behavior:
> 
> Reconnect to dbus
> 
> Actual behavior:
> 
> crash

Well, lightdm is not the only thing behaving badly when dbus is
restarted. Don't do that, really, that'll mess up your system… Even
updates don't restart the bus, actually.


Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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