Bug#870121: mate-power-manager: sometimes hits not-reached assertion on startup

[Vlad Orlov]

Hi,

Here's a quick patch from upstream commit, it should fix the crash:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-power-manager/commit/7facec455d825d317caffb8cafc4e4fec60065d9.patch

Bug#870121: mate-power-manager: sometimes hits not-reached assertion on startup

[James Lu]

Control: retitle -1 mate-power-manager: crashes with upower 0.99.5 on any 
device with a backlit keyboard
Control: severity -1 grave
Justification: renders package unusable on a large range of systems

Hi everyone,

According to the upstream issue, mate-power-manager is now completely broken 
with upower
0.99.5 on any device with a backlit keyboard. This makes it effectively 
unusable on a wide
slew of devices, so I'm bumping the severity to make the issue more notable.

Best,
James

Bug#870121: mate-power-manager: sometimes hits not-reached assertion on startup

[brian m. carlson]

forwarded 870121 https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-power-manager/issues/226
kthxbye

On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:10:18PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
> mate-power-manager is not starting when I log in anymore.  It logs the
> following to ~/.xsession-errors.
> 
>   **
>   ERROR:gpm-kbd-backlight.c:342:gpm_kbd_backlight_on_dbus_signal: code should 
> not be reached
> 
> Running it by hand the first time produced the same result.  Running a
> second time caused it to start.
> 
> I believe this issue is preventing my screen from locking when I suspend
> my laptop.  I've seen that issue on two separare Thinkpad X1 Carbon
> laptops, both at home and at work.  On the work laptop, the machine does
> not suspend at all.

This appears to be caused by the upgrade of upower from 0.99.4-4+b1 to
0.99.5-2.  With the upgrade, even if mate-power-manager starts, it ends
up crashing on suspend.  Once I donwgrade upower, mate-power-manager
suspends and restores as expected, locking the screen as normal.
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Bug#870121: mate-power-manager: sometimes hits not-reached assertion on startup

[brian m. carlson]

Package: mate-power-manager
Version: 1.16.2-1
Severity: important

mate-power-manager is not starting when I log in anymore.  It logs the
following to ~/.xsession-errors.

  **
  ERROR:gpm-kbd-backlight.c:342:gpm_kbd_backlight_on_dbus_signal: code should 
not be reached

Running it by hand the first time produced the same result.  Running a
second time caused it to start.

I believe this issue is preventing my screen from locking when I suspend
my laptop.  I've seen that issue on two separare Thinkpad X1 Carbon
laptops, both at home and at work.  On the work laptop, the machine does
not suspend at all.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-power-manager depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  libatk1.0-0 2.24.0-1
ii  libc6   2.24-12
ii  libcairo-gobject2   1.14.10-1
ii  libcairo2   1.14.10-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0  0.30-3
ii  libcanberra00.30-3
ii  libdbus-1-3 1.11.16+really1.10.22-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-20.108-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-02.52.3-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0   3.12.0-1+b2
ii  libgtk-3-0  3.22.17-1
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-11.16.2-1
ii  libnotify4  0.7.7-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0  1.40.6-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.6-1
ii  libupower-glib3 0.99.5-2
ii  libx11-62:1.6.4-3
ii  libxext62:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxrandr2  2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii  mate-notification-daemon [notification-daemon]  1.16.1-1
ii  mate-power-manager-common   1.16.2-1
ii  notification-daemon 3.20.0-1+b1
ii  policykit-1 0.105-18
ii  systemd 234-2
ii  upower  0.99.5-2

mate-power-manager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mate-power-manager suggests:
ii  mate-polkit  1.16.0-2

-- no debconf information

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