Commit bisect lubuntu-desktop?

[John Hupp]

On 2/13/2014 11:09 AM, Israel wrote:
> On 02/13/2014 08:52 AM, John Hupp wrote:
>> On 2/12/2014 9:28 PM, Israel wrote:
>>> On 02/12/2014 06:47 PM, John Hupp wrote:
>>>> I have been troubleshooting a problem that appeared between Lubuntu 
>>>> Raring and Saucy. The problem does not appear on plain Ubuntu. I 
>>>> installed lubuntu-desktop on Ubuntu Saucy and duplicated the 
>>>> problem, so it seems that something in the desktop environment is 
>>>> responsible. If I were speculating, I would say that lxsession or 
>>>> one of its dependencies is the culprit.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, after coming at it from a number of angles and not 
>>>> finding a solution, I'm wondering about something nice and 
>>>> methodical like a commit bisect. Can I do that with lubuntu-desktop 
>>>> or its major dependent packages?
>>>>
>>>> --John
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I've posted more directly about the problem here, but because 
>>>> it involves LTSP and that is a rarity on Lubuntu, no one with 
>>>> specific experience addressed the problem (though Israel took a 
>>>> swing at it based on his general knowledge). Nonetheless, my notes 
>>>> about what I've tried:
>>>>
>>>> Under Saucy i386, I find that on a client machine the X session 
>>>> ends within seconds and returns to the LDM login screen.
>>>>
>>>> LDM.log merely notes something like "x session started" and then 
>>>> immediately follows with "x session ended."
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't matter which user account I log in with.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried a couple different clients with different video cards, 
>>>> one an old Intel and the other a current Radeon, both with plenty 
>>>> of RAM.
>>>>
>>>> The problem only appears with Lubuntu Saucy. I have not seen it 
>>>> with Ubuntu Saucy.
>>>>
>>>> The problem did not appear under Lubuntu Raring.
>>>>
>>>> On an installation of Ubuntu Saucy, installing lubuntu-desktop and 
>>>> choosing the Lubuntu session from the LTSP client manifests the 
>>>> bug. This heavily implicates LXDE.
>>>>
>>>> ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf for both users has 
>>>> disable_autostart=all, so many/most autostart apps are disabled.
>>>>
>>>> Disable zram: On the server, sudo mv /etc/init/zram-config.conf –> 
>>>> zram-config.donotstart and then sudo ltsp-update-image -c /. Did 
>>>> not fix.
>>>>
>>>> Trying different monitors on the client did not fix.
>>>>
>>>> Check /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf: LDM_DIRECTX = True (for 
>>>> no encrypted SSH tunnel)
>>>>
>>>> cat /var/log/Xorg.n.log on client: I don’t see anything. Last line 
>>>> is Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch.
>>>>
>>>> LTS.conf: LDM_AUTOLOGIN=True (with accompanying user and P/W in 
>>>> specific client section) produces a boot loop.
>>>>
>>>> From LDM, logging in with Session: Failsafe Lxterm produced a 
>>>> successful login into a terminal window.
>>>> But from that terminal, running startx yields X: user not 
>>>> authorized to run the X server, aborting. (Yet it does the same on 
>>>> 13.04, so that does not indicate anything.)
>>>> On the server, ~/.Xauthority is owned by the respective users, not 
>>>> by root (ownership by root had caused this behavior for one user).
>>>> None of the users are in the video group, but neither are they in 
>>>> 13.04.
>>>>
>>>> From LDM on client, Ctrl-Alt-F2 and startx at that root prompt does 
>>>> start the Ubuntu X session (though with no desktop features).
>>>>
>>> Here is another shot in the dark....
>>> 1. Default applications for LXSession has caused a few people 
>>> headaches... this *may* be part of the problem...
>>> 2. Have you tried 14.04 to see if the problem is still here (It is 
>>> in Alpha still... but I use it as my daily driver without any major 
>>> issues).
>>>
>>> I sure hope you can figure out where the issue is.
>>> But your comments make me wonder if that program is causing the 
>>> problem... you might try simply removing it... though I don't know 
>>> everything that comes with it.  It will probably want to remove 
>>> lubuntu-deskop.... (you could force it without recommends if you 
>>> still want that package... though It doesn't really do anything 
>>> except pull in the depends for Lubuntu).
>>>
>>
>> I have been wanting to try 14.04 but due to bandwidth would have to 
>> download overnight -- and I have forgotten to start the job the last 
>> several opportunities!
>>
>> Thinking of LXSession-default-apps, I did go so far as to 
>> double-check that it was set *not* to autostart anything for any 
>> user.  On the other hand, the X session terminates so quickly after 
>> starting (~ 1 s) that I'm a bit doubtful as to whether a startup app 
>> might be the cause.
>>
>> When you say "that program is causing the problem... you might try 
>> simply removing it," do you mean LXSession-default-apps, or something 
>> else?  AFAIK, LXSession-default-apps does nothing more than edit some 
>> configuration files that one could also edit manually.
>>
> Sure, when they put the LXSession-Default-apps in it made some of the 
> other autostart capabilities not work right (like the autostart folder 
> in ./config)  So, I was thinking it might be causing an issue with 
> your scenario, and removing that program might help.
> As you already know, I don't really know enough to really help you in 
> your specific problem... but when you mentioned the things you did, it 
> made me wonder if the program that has changed and is controlling 
> autostart might be the culprit, as it might have some preconfigured 
> settings, and a apt-get purge might fix it... but this is just a guess...
>

One piece of good news is that the problem does not appear in the 
2-12-14 Daily Build of 14.04.

Of course if I want to fix 13.10 then there is still the wide-open 
question of what changed and how did that affect the behavior.