The default respawn limit is 10 within 5 seconds [1]. We definitely want unity8 to respawn, but maybe we just need to increase the time limit (since it probably takes quite a bit of time for unity8 to crash - it likely misses the 5s mark).
[1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn-limit ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Importance: High => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578469 Title: Crashes in unity8 cause infinite restarts and/or a permanently black screen Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Crashes in unity8 cause infinite restarts and/or a permanently black screen. As experienced in bug 1578462. I guess the problem is the 'respawn' keyword in: /usr/share/upstart/sessions/unity8.conf [http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity8/+bug/1578469/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
