legacy apps re-set their notification status on reboot

As far as I can tell, the setting was respected on start up (I did not get the notification from the external drives app) but was reset to receive notifications.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This seems to affect only legacy apps (external drives and system-settings) and not every time.

The only difference in the setting between legacy and click apps is that legacy apps are stored like:

('', 'ciborium')

and click apps like:

('com.ubuntu.developer.webapps.webapp-facebook', 'webapp-facebook')

The entries are removed on boot, so it's not system settings that's deleting them. Is there something that checks gsettings against schemas that may be "cleaning" this?

I manually set the blacklist setting to various values and it seems anything with other than a valid name of a click package gets removed.
Something must be rewriting the blacklist, is it possible the push-client is doing this?
For example the following is retained:
[('com.ubuntu.developer.webapps.webapp-facebook', 'ciborium')]
but
[('', 'ciborium')]
is removed.

I should add other non-blank entries are also removed such as
[('com.ubuntu.developer.ciborium', 'ciborium')]

I played in the same lines and ('ciborium', 'ciborium') seems to survive.
There is no code outside of system settings that actually *writes* to this
setting at all.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Pat McGowan <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I manually set the blacklist setting to various values and it seems
> anything with other than a valid name of a click package gets removed.
> Something must be rewriting the blacklist, is it possible the push-client
> is doing this?
> For example the following is retained:
> [('com.ubuntu.developer.webapps.webapp-facebook', 'ciborium')]
> but
> [('', 'ciborium')]
> is removed.
>
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => High
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Roberto Alsina (ralsina)
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380662
>
> Title:
> legacy apps re-set their notification status on reboot
>
> Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> when un-setting the notification defaults for "external drives" this
> setting is respected fine until i reboot my phone, after which the
> setting is auto-enabled again, regardless of what i chose before the
> reboot.
>
> the same seems to be true for the "system-settings" option in the
> notifications panel. something like gmail or facebook persits fine
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1380662/+subscriptions
>

I am doing a branch with more logging just in case the code from settings
is being invoked by the settings wizard or whatever and it has to be fixed.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Roberto Alsina <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I played in the same lines and ('ciborium', 'ciborium') seems to survive.
> There is no code outside of system settings that actually *writes* to this
> setting at all.
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Pat McGowan <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> I manually set the blacklist setting to various values and it seems
>> anything with other than a valid name of a click package gets removed.
>> Something must be rewriting the blacklist, is it possible the push-client
>> is doing this?
>> For example the following is retained:
>> [('com.ubuntu.developer.webapps.webapp-facebook', 'ciborium')]
>> but
>> [('', 'ciborium')]
>> is removed.
>>
>>
>> ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
>> Importance: Undecided => High
>>
>> ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
>> Assignee: (unassigned) => Roberto Alsina (ralsina)
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380662
>>
>> Title:
>> legacy apps re-set their notification status on reboot
>>
>> Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> when un-setting the notification defaults for "external drives" this
>> setting is respected fine until i reboot my phone, after which the
>> setting is auto-enabled again, regardless of what i chose before the
>> reboot.
>>
>> the same seems to be true for the "system-settings" option in the
>> notifications panel. something like gmail or facebook persits fine
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1380662/+subscriptions
>>
>
>

 scripts/click-hook in ubuntu-push has a "cleanup_settings()" that seems suspicious

that's not a settings issue, that application doesn't run on boot and can't be responsible for things happening then

running /usr/lib/ubuntu-push-client/click-hook indeed empty that key

Marked to affect also the gschema, as there is a documentation bug there that caused the misbehaviour of the cleanup script.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-push - 0.64.1+15.04.20150116.2~rtm-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-push (0.64.1+15.04.20150116.2~rtm-0ubuntu1) 14.09; urgency=low

  [ John R. Lenton ]
  * Cherrypick r350 from automatic/ to turn down logs to info. (LP:
    #1376282, #1380662)
  * Cherrypick r342 from automatic/ to fix the click hook wrt legacy
    apps. (LP: #1380662)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:57:04 +0000