ofonod does not recover if rild re-starts

Bug #1388924 reported by Alfonso Sanchez-Beato
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ofono (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

If the rild daemon is re-started due to a crash, ofonod doesn't recover correctly and thus leaves the system in an inconsistent state where most telephony functions are broken.

This bug is related to the fix for bug #1388030 which was reported for a crash on krillin which involved a socket disconnect. As the fix for the bug worked around the issue by adding a timed delay, we decided to check to see whether a rild restart ( which also causes the socket to disconnect ) would cause similar problems.

This was tested by intentionally killing rild on krillin with a SIGKILL.

To reproduce:

$ phablet-shell
$ sudo su
# kill -9 `pgrep rild`
# cd /usr/share/ofono/scripts
# dial-number /ril_0 <number>

The call to dial-number fails although the VoiceCallManager exists, which proves that ofonod does not recover properly.

Note another way to verify is to try and make a phone call from dialer after restarting rild. This will result in a blank screen for 10-15s, followed by a 'Call Failed' screen. Similar result with the messaging app, except the timeout seems longer.

This happens for

$ system-image-cli -i
current build number: 139
device name: krillin
channel: ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09-proposed
last update: 2014-10-31 08:58:51
version version: 139
version ubuntu: 20141031
version device: 20141028-3ca60be
version custom: 1414598646

Also verified on mako ( with a slightly older image ):

current build number: 104
device name: mako
channel: ubuntu-touch/ubuntu-rtm/14.09-proposed
last update: 2014-10-23 15:51:33
version version: 104
version ubuntu: 20141023
version device: 20141017.2
version custom: mako-1.1

Tags: rtm14
Tony Espy (awe)
summary: - ofonod does not recover after rild re-starts
+ ofonod does not recover if rild re-starts
Tony Espy (awe)
description: updated
Tony Espy (awe)
description: updated
Changed in ofono (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
tags: added: rtm14
Tony Espy (awe)
description: updated
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