[Bug 1702894] Re: ubiquity fails to start under wayland

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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Title:
  ubiquity fails to start under wayland

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubiquity source package in Artful:
  Won't Fix
Status in ubiquity source package in Bionic:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  artful desktop 20170707.1

  Ubiquity fails to start from the live session.

  From syslog 
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: Ubiquity 17.04.9
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: Traceback (most recent call last):
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 655, in <module>
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:     main(oem_config)
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 641, in main
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:     install(query=options.query)
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 270, in install
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:     wizard = ui.Wizard(distro)
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:   File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py", line 239, in __init__
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]:     self.watch = Gdk.Cursor.new(Gdk.CursorType.WATCH)
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: TypeError: constructor returned NULL
  Jul  7 12:27:51 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: 
  Jul  7 12:27:52 ubuntu ubiquity[4375]: log-output -t ubiquity /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
  Jul  7 12:27:57 ubuntu kernel: [  774.404538] update-notifier[4425]: segfault at 0 ip           (null) sp 00007ffd666ed328 error 14 in update-notifier[5580e6078000+e000]

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