Bug 17565

Summary:	[mga6 dev1] IceWM is default DE for Mate DE single DE install
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Atilla ÖNTAŞ <tarakbumba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6dev1, NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ben McMonagle 2016-01-21 10:12:14 CET

Description of problem: after installing Mate DE only from above .iso, upon reboot IceWM is presented as the default login DE. Mate can be selected from the DE choices and is available to login. 
User would expect Mate DE to be presented at login.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-6-dev1-i586-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Tue Jan 19 23:55:15 CET 2016


How reproducible:every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Mate DE only from above .iso and reboot
2.at login screen confirm that IceWM is selected as default DE
3.Change DE choice and confirm Mate DE can be launched


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-02-06 19:41:15 CET

That was with 
Mageia-6-dev1-i586-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Tue Jan 19 23:55:15 CET 2016

@ tarakbumba

I don't have a clue, and don't know to what or to whom to assign.

So assigning to you, because you'll be the best motivated person to figure out what goes wrong.

Please reassign when needed 

Thanks :-)

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => tarakbumba
Source RPM: Mageia-6-dev1-i586-DVD.iso DATE.txt: Tue Jan 19 23:55:15 CET 2016 => (none)
Whiteboard: (none) => 6dev1

Comment 2 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2016-02-06 22:24:18 CET

I can not confirm this issue with fresh Mageia-6-dev1-i586-DVD.iso DATE.txt:  Tue Feb  2 23:08:31 CET 2016. Note that this installation did not an updated system. Just plain iso install. (Virtualbox network issues? I should consult to pad...)

See, i have installed the iso to one of my test VMs and Mate is the default desktop at Lightdm screen. Something changed from Jan 19 to Feb 2 with the isos?

Comment 3 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2016-02-06 23:46:39 CET

Well, i forgot that i also installed lxde so, further test needed for me. I reinstalled iso with Mate sole DE and confirmed that this bug exists.Working on it. It is something with lightdm.

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-02-07 10:12:17 CET

(In reply to Atilla ÃNTAÅ from comment #3)
> Well, i forgot that i also installed lxde so, further test needed for me. I
> reinstalled iso with Mate sole DE and confirmed that this bug exists.Working
> on it. It is something with lightdm.

Thanks Atilla :-)

When you fix it, do you mind elaborating on what was wrong? I'd very much like to get a bit of understanding of how this works ;-)

Comment 5 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2016-02-07 22:26:33 CET

It seems, this bug is my bad. I've forgotten to modify mate-session-manager file /etc/lightdm/lighdm.conf.d/50-mageia-mate.conf when we switched to upstream /etc/xsessions/ desktop file. Now i started to upload mate 1.13.0; so mate-session-manager-1.13.0.mga6 with fix is included.

Marja, you may want to look at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM and http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/CommonConfiguration/ for further info. Basically, we provide a default session for lightdm and it picks up it as default.


@ben; if you still have your Mate setup when mate-session-manager-1.13.0.mga6 hits your mirror; upon updating please test it by;

- First switch to another tty, i.e. tty2
# .dmrc file includes info which desktop is last login by user. And it will be read again before user logs in
- Become root and remove /home/your_user/.dmrc
# state file includes last selection on gtk-greeter and will be used upon next login screen.
- Remove /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/lightdm-gtk-greeter/state file
- Start dm.service by running
      > systemctl restart dm.service

Now, lightdm started again and mate should be default selection.

Comment 6 Ben McMonagle 2016-02-08 07:11:08 CET

(In reply to Atilla ÃNTAÅ from comment #5)

> 
> @ben; if you still have your Mate setup when
> mate-session-manager-1.13.0.mga6 hits your mirror; upon updating please test
> it by;
> 
> - First switch to another tty, i.e. tty2
> # .dmrc file includes info which desktop is last login by user. And it will
> be read again before user logs in
> - Become root and remove /home/your_user/.dmrc
> # state file includes last selection on gtk-greeter and will be used upon
> next login screen.
> - Remove /var/lib/lightdm/.cache/lightdm-gtk-greeter/state file
> - Start dm.service by running
>       > systemctl restart dm.service
> 
> Now, lightdm started again and mate should be default selection.

Sorry Atilla, moved on with testing to next DE.

However, I understand that new Classic Install .isos should be with us in a few days, so if the update is on the build server, it should be included.

Btw, no-one else testing remarked on this bug, so it is not an easily noticed one.
I will look out for your fix,
regards

Comment 7 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2016-03-11 07:59:52 CET

Ben, is it ok with the new set of (07 March) classical isos?

Comment 8 Ben McMonagle 2016-03-11 10:15:41 CET

(In reply to Atilla ÃNTAÅ from comment #7)
> Ben, is it ok with the new set of (07 March) classical isos?

Hi Atilla,

I made a special check for this and yes for the x86_64 is default to Mate DE.
forgot to get here , so thanks for the prod :)

Cannot check i586 as .iso will not install.

will try to remember to check and report when i586 is checkable

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-05 19:36:19 CEST

Did this get fixed for i586, too?

Keywords: (none) => 6dev1, NEEDINFO
Whiteboard: 6dev1 => (none)

Comment 10 Ben McMonagle 2016-04-06 10:25:38 CEST

fixed

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED