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multiseat xorg.conf setup broken after upgrade to 8.10

Bug #292774 reported by Zbigniew Chyla
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu jaunty-alpha-2
xorg (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg

During upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 my xorg.conf was modified without asking me for confirmation. All "InputDevice" lines and "InputDevice" sections have been commented out ("# commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used"). It completely broke my multi-seat setup as all input devices (keyboards, mice, tablet) have been captured by the first X server.

I fixed the problem manually by restoring the old config and then adding 'Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"' to each "ServerLayout" section.

See original description
Tags: multiseat
Zbigniew Chyla (zbigniew-chyla)
description: updated
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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote :

Can you attach you xorg.conf?

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

What should update-manger do in this case? Is there a way to detect such a multiseat setup ?

Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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Zbigniew Chyla (zbigniew-chyla) wrote :
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Zbigniew Chyla (zbigniew-chyla) wrote :

The simplest approach would be to check for multiple ServerLayout sections.

Anyway, you shouldn't introduce such changes without asking for confirmation.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi zbigniew-chyla,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Changed in xorg:
status: New → Incomplete
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Zbigniew Chyla (zbigniew-chyla) wrote :
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Zbigniew Chyla (zbigniew-chyla) wrote :
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Zbigniew Chyla (zbigniew-chyla) wrote :

I attached both Xorg.0.log and Xorg.1.log.

X servers are started by using the following entries from gdm.conf:

[server-Standard0]
name=Standard server 0
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -layout Layout0 -isolateDevice PCI:5:0:0
flexible=false

[server-Standard1]
name=Standard server 1
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -novtswitch -sharevts -layout Layout1 -isolateDevice PCI:4:0:0
flexible=false

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in update-manager:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → jaunty-alpha-2
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.95.2

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update-manager (1:0.95.2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py:
    - check the support of fglrx against the current
      PCI card (LP: #284408)
  * DistUpgrade/xorg_fix_intrepid.py:
    - do not rewrite multiseat configs (LP: #292774)
  * UpdateManager/Common/MyCache.py,
    UpdateManager/Common/UpdateList.py:
    - move the cache,updatelist implementation out into
      its own file
  * fix free space check on regular update-manager
    invocations (LP: #105113)
  * debian/rules
    - remove the arch-build target
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - improvements to the sources.list rewriting, better tests
    - when rewriting sources.list check for inconsistencies between what
      components are enabled in intrepid vs intrepid-updates and
      intrepid-security and automatically enable missing ones for
      intrepid-updates and intrepid-security
    - new test if the upgrade is run from a remote
      login (LP: #301787)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:39:27 +0100

Changed in update-manager:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in xorg:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
bastafidli (h-launchpad-bastafidli-com)
tags: added: multiseat
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