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Unity8 on Vivid doesn't boot, due to old unity8-desktop-session-mir in Vivid archive

Bug #1538659 reported by Andrea Bernabei
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Bug Description

On a fresh vivid setup, installing unity8-desktop-session-mir doesn't pull in
the platform and client packages required to be able to run unity8

I had to install
mir-client-platform-mesa3
mir-platform-graphics-mesa-km7
mir-platform-input-evdev4

PS I have the Overlay PPA installed,
unity8-desktop-session-mir is version 1.0.12+15.04.20150309-0ubuntu1 (which is really old, and could be the cause of these issues!)

UPDATE: turns out it's because vivid has an old version of the package (March 2015) and unity8-desktop-session-mir added a dependency to Mir graphics drivers in June 2015 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity8-desktop-session-team/unity8-desktop-session/trunk/revision/79.2.1

See original description
Andrea Bernabei (faenil)
description: updated
description: updated
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Alan Griffiths (alan-griffiths) wrote :

I would guess that the correct dependency would be mir-graphics-drivers-desktop.

Mir itself doesn't depend on either mir-graphics-drivers-desktop nor mir-graphics-drivers-android to avoid pulling both.

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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

I've just found
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity8-desktop-session-team/unity8-desktop-session/trunk/revision/79.2.1

That means the unity8-desktop-session-mir that we have on Overlay PPA is too old, that's why it doesn't grab the drivers.
(see version in the bug description)

description: updated
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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

updated the bug title to reflect new discoveries

summary: - unity8-desktop-session-mir is missing mir-platform-* and mir-client-*
- dependencies
+ Unity8 on Vivid doesn't boot, due to old unity8-desktop-session-mir in
+ Vivid archive
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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1460868

but the updated was only released on Wily

Albert Astals Cid (aacid)
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

@Albert: who could get this bug?

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

Not sure really, do i undersand that the only thing we need is an updated release of unity8-desktop-session-mir ?

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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

yeah, I think so, it's only been released on Wily (at least that's what the other bug reports states)

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Ubuntu 15.04 ("Vivid Vervet") is not longer in support and reached end of life on February 4, 2016.

Changed in unity8-desktop-session (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

The bug was reported in January...but yeah, makes sense, thanks anyway

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Andrea Bernabei (faenil) wrote :

please notice I also have the overlay PPA installed ;)

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Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :

So should this be reopened? And unity8-desktop-session synced from xenial to vivid overlay?

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Albert Astals Cid (aacid) wrote :

I guess the question is "Do we care for unity8 desktop users using vivid+overlay?" or do we want them to use xenial for the desktop?

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