** Description changed:

  According to
  https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/bcb050f97778eb836056c1c48139bcde30ed0bcb
  it seems to be common-ish.
  
- This happens when unity8-dash can't find unity8 (mir server) and it's
- our controlled way of exiting (not very clean, but it is how it is).
+ This happens when unity8-dash can't find unity8 (mir server) and
+ crashing (via QFatal) is our controlled way of exiting (not very clean,
+ but it is how it is)[1].
  
- This will happen for example if you try to start unity8-dash directly (not 
thorugh upstart) from a ssh shell in the phone, i.e
+ This will happen for example if you try to start unity8-dash directly (not 
through upstart) from a ssh shell in the phone, i.e
  phablet-shell
  stop unity8-dash
  unity8-dash
  
  And it may happen after a unity8 crash.
  
  In general we think that it's not a pressing issue users have since
  there seems to have not been any report of unity8-dash failing to start,
  but we're creating this bug to track it from time to time and make sure
  it doesn't get worse.
+ 
+ [1] Qt platform plugins (also know as QPA) don't have a way to say they
+ had a problem initiating themselves, Qt code is prepared for the
+ QPlatformIntegrationPlugin::create() function to return, but all it does
+ when that happens is call qFatal anyway [2]
+ 
+ [2]
+ 
http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp#n1132

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  clients crash with "UbuntuClientIntegration: connection to Mir server
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