Unity Greeter

lp:~khurshid-alam/unity-greeter/systemd-240-fix

Created by Khurshid Alam on 2019-02-09 and last modified on 2019-02-11

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Sebastien Bacher: Approve on 2019-02-19

Robert Ancell: Approve on 2019-02-15

Seth Arnold (community): Approve on 2019-02-13

Marco Trevisan (Treviño): Pending requested 2019-02-11

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Owner:: Khurshid Alam

Project:: Unity Greeter

Status:: Development

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2449. By Khurshid Alam on 2019-02-11

Disable mlockall call

According to systemd-dev,

mlockall() is generally a bad idea and certainly has no place in a graphical program.
A program like this uses lots of memory and it is crucial that this memory can be paged
out to relieve memory pressure.

With systemd version 239 the ulimit for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK was set to 16 MiB
and therefore the mlockall call would fail. This is lucky becasue the subsequent mmap would not fail.

With systemd version 240 the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is now set to 64 MiB
and now the mlockall no longer fails. However, it not possible to mmap in all
the memory and because that would still exceed the MEMLOCK limit.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1662857 &
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/lightdm/issues/55

RLIMIT_MEMLOCK = 64 MiB means, unity-greeter will most likely fail with 64 bit and
will always fail on 32 bit systems.

Hence we better disable it.

2448. By Khurshid Alam on 2018-09-18

Update greeter logo for 18.10

2447. By Launchpad Translations on behalf of unity-greeter-team on 2018-04-27