[SRU] 3.28.2

Hello Iain, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gdm3 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/3.28.2-0ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Tested on Pop!_OS and it's working for me.
Version tested 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.1

Details of my steps were recorded here:
https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/238#issuecomment-393045933

Forget to mention, it's on Pop!_OS 18.04 :)

Hello Iain, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gdm3 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/3.28.2-0ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Verified that it is working for me.
Note, since the verification, I've since received a downstream patch on GDM3 from Pop!_Os repo's which also works.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gdm3 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.

This bug was fixed in the package gdm3 - 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.2

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gdm3 (3.28.2-0ubuntu1.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/libgdm-drop-support-for-serializing-multiple-opens.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-fix-pointer-boolean-task-confusion.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-don-t-keep-manager-proxy-around-longer-than-we-nee.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-use-g_object_unref-instead-of-g_clear_object-for-w.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-get-connection-explicitly.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Drop-weak-refs-on-the-GDBusConnection.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Unref-the-manager-propagated-from-task.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Don-t-double-ref-the-connection-got-from-task.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Don-t-leak-connection-on-sync-re-authentication.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Use-auto-pointers-and-cleanup-code.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdb-Try-to-reuse-connections-from-the-available-proxie.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Don-t-save-manager-address.patch,
    debian/patches/libgdm-Return-NULL-on-invalid-client-instances.patch:
    - Cherry picks commits from upstream 3.28 branch to propely fix ref-counting
      issues on GdmClient (LP: #1766137)

gdm3 (3.28.2-0ubuntu1.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/gbp.conf: Add with 'bionic' configuration.
  * debian/control{,.in}: Update Vcs-* for git.
  * New upstream release (LP: #1773968):
    - Reference counting fixes for GdmClient (LP: #1766137)
    - ensure plymouth is quit properly even when local greeter is disabled
    - make sure GDM doesn't hang when called with unknown command line arguments
  * debian/patches/0001-libgdm-Don-t-unref-a-connection-that-s-in-use.patch,
    debian/patches/0002-libgdm-add-weak-pointer-for-connection-object.patch:
    Drop, included in this release.

gdm3 (3.28.0-0ubuntu1.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0001-libgdm-Don-t-unref-a-connection-that-s-in-use.patch,
    debian/patches/0002-libgdm-add-weak-pointer-for-connection-object.patch:
    Cherry-pick two patches from the 3.28 branch. These fix a refcounting bug
    in the GDM Client object, which had meant that the DBus connection was
    being disposed too early in some cases, particularly when logging in after
    a failed attempt. The symptom of that was that the system hung on a
    "blank" screen. (LP: #1766137)
  * debian/control{,.in}: Update for bionic

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:58:41 +0100