Review Request 124915: [screenlocker] Add emergency mode for greeter crashing

[Martin Gräßlin]

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(Updated Aug. 25, 2015, 12:54 p.m.)


Status
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This change has been marked as submitted.


Review request for Plasma and David Edmundson.


Changes
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Submitted with commit 5e2f4016dced0af61f5d2817d8eac0cfef3ad52b by Martin Gräßlin to branch master.


Bugs: 351696
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351696


Repository: plasma-workspace


Description
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If the greeter crashes on startup ksld is caught in a restart loop which
causes 100 % CPU usage and makes it impossible to unlock the session.

With this change the greeter is only allowed to crash four times and
ksld goes into an emergency mode. This mode ensures that our black
background window gets shown with a message indicating how to unlock
using loginctl. This is rather technical but better than leaving the
system in a state which makes it impossible to unlock.

Directly unlocking in the error case is not an option as that could
be used to attack the screen locker infrastructure.

BUG: 351696


Diffs
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  ksmserver/screenlocker/autotests/CMakeLists.txt 44bbd97add6f5c9b2f83f9f2f825fa3c904e45c5 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.h 03ca2580ffc564cde033f3eeb2c81f77179a0bde 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/ksldapp.cpp d0636b8785101cb9896cea6399952dac0e4cd227 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/lockwindow.h 265699a9789703ad099eee043a14d4700e90c243 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/lockwindow.cpp 41af0e23f8442d75b7295debe50d9b29fbda7e7a 
  ksmserver/screenlocker/tests/CMakeLists.txt 613ec7b2eead38b36e7805804f25ed93b4ef7a68 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124915/diff/


Testing
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File Attachments
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Emergency mode
  https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/08/25/d90fa1f2-4400-4407-92f6-7d3dff49b3ed__screenlocker-emergency.png


Thanks,

Martin Gräßlin

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