Bug 1754220

Summary: x2gocleansessions kills user desktop shortly after login (~20 secs)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gregory Lee Bartholomew <gregory.lee.bartholomew>
Component: x2goserverAssignee: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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URL: https://bugs.x2go.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1409
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Description Gregory Lee Bartholomew 2019-09-21 22:07:05 UTC
Description of problem:

Randomly, user sessions are booted after logging in. Usually a stable connection can be acquired after a few retries.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

# rpm -q x2goserver
x2goserver-4.1.0.3-3.fc30.x86_64

How reproducible:

Randomly

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Login and wait 20 to 30 seconds (I was using LXDE and occasionally running "sudo -i" in a terminal, but I don't think that is necessary to trigger the bug).

Actual results:

Session killed shortly after logging in.

Expected results:

Session should not be killed.

Additional info:

To troubleshoot this issue, I did the following:

# mkdir /etc/systemd/system/x2gocleansessions.service.d
# cat << END > /etc/systemd/system/x2gocleansessions.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/x2gocleansessions -d
END
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl restart x2gocleansessions.service

After sprinkling /usr/sbin/x2gocleansessions with printf statements and x2gocleansessions.service a few times, I eventually traced the problem down to check_pid() being called with a NULL value for $pid (not sure why; seems to be some sort of race condition). The following patch seems to resolve the issue.

--- x2gocleansessions.a	2019-09-21 16:46:53.327948763 -0500
+++ x2gocleansessions.b	2019-09-21 16:46:10.076184475 -0500
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	my $pid=shift;
 	my $sess=shift;
 	my $sec=shift;
-	if ($sec < 30)
+	if (!$pid || $sec < 30)
 	{
 		return 1;
 	}

Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2019-09-22 23:07:28 UTC
Filed upstream

Comment 2 Gregory Lee Bartholomew 2019-09-23 03:27:39 UTC
Thanks. I've been running with this patch for a while now and it is working great. That other bug report was a false lead though. It probably shouldn't have been included in the upstream filing.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 21:05:12 UTC
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