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Ubuntu Hello v1.2.7 - No More Login Hangs on a Stuck TPM

This is a reliability release: login can no longer hang on a stuck TPM or keyring helper when keyring/KWallet unlocking is enabled.

🔧 What's in this release

  • ⏱️ Login can no longer hang on a stuck keyring helper. When keyring/KWallet unlocking is enabled, the PAM module runs root helpers: the tpm2_* steps that unseal the keyring password after a face match, and keyring enable, which caches the password at login. It waited for them with no time limit, so a hung TPM device or resource manager froze the login. Each helper now has 30 seconds. It runs in its own process group, and if it is still running at the deadline the whole group is killed. Login then carries on without the keyring step: face auth is unaffected, and the keyring is just not unlocked or the password not cached that time.
  • 🧪 Tests. pam-main covers a helper that never exits, one that prints and then hangs (its partial output is kept), output held open by a background child, and a slow helper inside the limit.

No new config keys and no new or changed translatable strings.

📥 Installation (from Release assets)

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS on the Release page before installing. Download this release's assets into an empty/clean directory before running these commands — the wildcards below match by filename pattern, and leftover assets from another version in the same directory can make a package manager see multiple matches (or, for the AppImage command, pass a second matched file as a stray argument).

Format Command
Debian (amd64 + arm64) sudo apt install ./ubuntu-hello_*_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb ./ubuntu-hello-gtk_*_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb
Fedora (amd64 + arm64) sudo dnf install ./ubuntu-hello-[0-9]*fc44*.$(uname -m).rpm ./ubuntu-hello-gtk-*fc44*.$(uname -m).rpm
openSUSE (amd64 + arm64) sudo zypper install ./ubuntu-hello-[0-9]*lp160*.$(uname -m).rpm ./ubuntu-hello-gtk-*lp160*.$(uname -m).rpm
AppImage (amd64 + arm64) chmod +x Ubuntu-Hello-*-$(uname -m).AppImage && ./Ubuntu-Hello-*-$(uname -m).AppImage --install
Arch (amd64 only) sudo pacman -U ./ubuntu-hello-[0-9]*.pkg.tar.zst ./ubuntu-hello-gtk-*.pkg.tar.zst
Snap (amd64 only) sudo snap install --dangerous --classic ubuntu-hello_*_amd64.snap && sudo snap run ubuntu-hello.host-install
Flatpak (amd64 only) flatpak install --user ./com.github.ventura8.UbuntuHello-*.flatpak && flatpak run --command=ubuntu-hello-host-install com.github.ventura8.UbuntuHello

PPA (Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04). On 22.04 use the PPA: the .deb assets above are built on 26.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ventura8/ubuntu-hello && sudo apt update && sudo apt install ubuntu-hello

Optional source install: download install.sh from the v1.2.7 tag, review it, then run locally — do not pipe a moving branch URL directly to bash.

Full Changelog: v1.2.6...v1.2.7

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