LivePatch in Software & Updates shows that LP is not enabled when the U1 account has expired in g-o-a

This is what I get when the account is expired. The check-button is not sensible but is ticked. Are you getting something different?

It would also be nice to understand why the accounts tend to expire but it's a different bug that need to be discussed somewhere elese.

Ah yeah, you're right. It is still checked, but is greyed out.

However, I think that is still misleading as, to me at least, it implies that LivePatch isn't working because I'm not signed in.

Am I right in thinking that you can still disabled LP if the u1 account has expired? If so I think that if LP is active and can be disabled in this state, then it should be possible to disable it without having to refresh the u1 creds.

But, we should get input from design.

mtp replied by email:

That is a strange situation. But since there’s no reason to stop you
from turning Livepatch off, the checkbox should still be enabled. The
only thing we can’t do, that we normally would, is tell you what account
you’re signed in as. Instead we can just reassure you that “Livepatch is
active.”

Uploaded to cosmic, do we think that's worth SRUing to bionic?

Yeah this should be SRUed to bionic.

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.96.24.34

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software-properties (0.96.24.34) cosmic; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Allow the user to disable livepatch if the gnome-online-account expired.
    (lp: #1768797)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:38:17 +0200

Hello Will, or anyone else affected,

Accepted software-properties into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/0.96.24.32.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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0.96.24.32.4 works as described, marking as verified

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.96.24.32.4

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software-properties (0.96.24.32.4) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Allow the user to disable livepatch if the gnome-online-account expired.
    (lp: #1768797)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:38:17 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for software-properties has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.