984944 - Disable deja-dup-monitor and jockey-gtk services from autostarting on Linux ubuntu slaves

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

in my quest for turning on the latency talos tests, I found that they were failing, a common trend was that the screenshot was showing nothing (either a blank screen or some *tear* across the background with no borders, bars, etc.)  For working tests a screenshot showed something.

After fiddling with this on a loaner slave, I found that examining the system between vnc in and non vnc in as well as fresh reboot vs waiting 10 minutes after a reboot, I came up with two changes:
cat deja-dup-monitor.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=deja-dup

Name=Backup Monitor
Comment=Schedules backups at regular intervals

Icon=deja-dup
TryExec=/usr/lib/deja-dup/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
Exec=/usr/lib/deja-dup/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor

#X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=120
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

StartupNotify=false
NoDisplay=true

Type=Application
Categories=System;Utility;Archiving;
[[e-mail] autostart]# cat jockey-gtk.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Check for new hardware drivers
Comment=Notify about new hardware drivers available for the system
Icon=jockey
Exec=sh -c "test -e /var/cache/jockey/check || exec jockey-gtk --check"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;Settings;GTK;HardwareSettings;
NotShowIn=KDE;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=jockey
#X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
NoDisplay=true
[[e-mail] autostart]# pwd
/etc/xdg/autostart


you can see that I commented out 'X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=...', and added a new line to the two files: 'X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false'

Comment 1

[Armen [:armenzg]]

I'm going to look into this today.

Comment 2

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Attachment: (no-op) track deja-dup-monitor.desktop and jockey-gtk.desktop

Is under modules the right place?

This patch does nothing since it deploys the same files which are across all Ubuntu machines (ec2 32/64-bit & ix 32/64-bit).

Comment 3

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop]/content: 
--- /etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop	2012-04-10 14:18:31.000000000 -0700
+++ /tmp/puppet-file20140325-3635-bfb5z4-0	2014-03-25 09:45:05.491750457 -0700
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 TryExec=/usr/lib/deja-dup/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
 Exec=/usr/lib/deja-dup/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
 
-X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=120
+X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
 
 StartupNotify=false
 NoDisplay=true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop]/content: content changed '{md5}eef5eae3ead65052b6c84e1a81dd8d07' to '{md5}c2cc9266bb3a8d3ae85ff4c734fe35b2'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop]/content: 
--- /etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop	2012-04-12 00:35:56.000000000 -0700
+++ /tmp/puppet-file20140325-3635-1atqmpv-0	2014-03-25 09:45:05.631750452 -0700
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 Categories=System;Settings;GTK;HardwareSettings;
 NotShowIn=KDE;
 X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=jockey
-X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay=60
+X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
 NoDisplay=true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop]/content: content changed '{md5}4a3339397905f3f03863d4d3469e9f22' to '{md5}b1de1549c5f8f1c7e7bc2f1be7e1f0a6'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 10.29 seconds
[[e-mail] ~]#

Comment 4

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Backing out also works:

Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop]/content: 
--- /etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop	2014-03-25 09:45:05.527750455 -0700
+++ /tmp/puppet-file20140325-4339-1dhte52-0	2014-03-25 09:47:01.435747459 -0700
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 TryExec=/usr/lib/deja-dup/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
 Exec=/usr/lib/deja-dup/deja-dup/deja-dup-monitor
 
-X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
+X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=120
 
 StartupNotify=false
 NoDisplay=true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/deja-dup-monitor.desktop]/content: content changed '{md5}c2cc9266bb3a8d3ae85ff4c734fe35b2' to '{md5}22597e4a4fd1c7ffc7d9e49e27a1238b'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop]/content: 
--- /etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop	2014-03-25 09:45:05.659750453 -0700
+++ /tmp/puppet-file20140325-4339-1wh85i7-0	2014-03-25 09:47:01.559747456 -0700
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 Categories=System;Settings;GTK;HardwareSettings;
 NotShowIn=KDE;
 X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=jockey
-X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
+X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=60
 NoDisplay=true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Gui/File[/etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop]/content: content changed '{md5}b1de1549c5f8f1c7e7bc2f1be7e1f0a6' to '{md5}9fda176253af6b755b9323119abb7817'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 10.36 seconds

Comment 5

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Looks good to me.  Can you include a comment in the config files as to why this is disabled?

From what i understand from comment 0, these apps are auto-starting and obscuring the tests?  I don't see how that's related to the blank or torn displays, though.

Comment 6

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Attachment: disable auto-start for deja-dup-monitor and jockey-gtk on Linux machines

Comment 7

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Thanks dustin!
I will deploy this in the morning.

Comment 8

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Comment on attachment 8396487 [details] [diff] [review]
(no-op) track deja-dup-monitor.desktop and jockey-gtk.desktop

This patch was deployed yesterday without any consequences.

Comment 9

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Comment on attachment 8396539 [details] [diff] [review]
disable auto-start for deja-dup-monitor and jockey-gtk on Linux machines

Deployed:
https://hg.mozilla.org/build/puppet/rev/896813d056ae

Comment 10

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Tomcat: FYI we have *just* deployed a change to the Linux test machines (tst-linux{32,64} and talos-linux{32,64}) to prevent auto-starting a couple of services.
If you see any issues in the next 2 hours we can roll this back easily.

Comment 11

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Unless an issue raises up we're done in here.

Comment 12

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

this has made a difference, I am seeing more green tests!  Thanks for doing this- a big step in the right direction.