Bug 17955

Summary:	[6dev1] installing Gnome DE from "other", installs IceWM as desktop environment
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11, nic, olav, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	6dev1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	sddm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	gnome install

Description Ben McMonagle 2016-03-11 11:25:52 CET

Description of problem:when installing Gnome via "other", when desktop is presented after reboot and login, desktop is IceWM

see also https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17954


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-6-dev1-x86_64-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Mon Mar  7 23:20:36 CET 2016


How reproducible:always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Gnome via "other" from above DE. reboot
2.during boot up change  window manager to XDM. see bug 17954
3.login to desktop - Icewm

Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2016-03-11 11:26:38 CET

Created attachment 7551 [details]
gnome install

Ben McMonagle 2016-03-11 11:26:55 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 6dev1

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-03-12 19:29:01 CET

@ Olav

I assume xdm is a too light dm to be able to start gnome??

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => olav

Comment 3 Ben McMonagle 2016-03-12 21:43:24 CET

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #2)
> @ Olav
> 
> I assume xdm is a too light dm to be able to start gnome??

I added sddm via MCC and changed from xdm to sddm for the boot manager, but Gnome desktop was not there

Comment 4 Nic Baxter 2016-03-13 03:50:44 CET

Hi Ben

Using:
ISO Name: Mageia-6-dev1-x86_64-DVD.iso 
Date.txt: Fri Mar 11 13:49:02 CET 2016
md5sum: 9e3744a77d2dc74e945a7fe4aca6f4b7 

Selected Custom instead of KDE or Gnome then after clicking on Graphical Environment, deselected Plasma and selected Gnome. Gdm is installed and Gnome launches as expected.
Is that what you did?

CC: (none) => nic

Comment 5 Ben McMonagle 2016-03-13 04:00:15 CET

(In reply to Nic Baxter from comment #4)
> Hi Ben

> Is that what you did?

yes, except boot stalled. I waited 5 min. maybe I should wait longer?
so I change from gdm to xdm,
then login presents,login and desktop presented is Icewm

graphics is onboard intel 810 or later

Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2016-03-14 21:09:10 CET

XDM likely doesn't support the freedesktop.org xsession files used by KDE, GNOME, etc to start the desktop. This used to work because there was some software to maintain this. XDM doesn't know how to start GNOME and then probably takes some fallback or something.

Comment 7 Olav Vitters 2016-03-14 21:10:11 CET

That software is something distro specific. I didn't change this, so reverting to default assignee. Also forgot who did.

Assignee: olav => bugsquad

Olav Vitters 2016-03-14 21:14:03 CET

CC: (none) => olav
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 8 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-05 21:04:08 CEST

Not sure why this bug was assigned to neoclust.

Maybe  because of:

(In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #3)

> 
> I added sddm via MCC and changed from xdm to sddm for the boot manager, but
> Gnome desktop was not there

Keywords: (none) => 6dev1
Source RPM: (none) => sddm
Whiteboard: 6dev1 => (none)

Comment 9 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-18 14:57:30 CEST

Installer properly installed task-gnome-minimal-3.19.2-2.mga6.noarch, thus this is not an installer bug

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Samuel Verschelde 2016-08-25 16:23:25 CEST

Assignee: mageia => kde

Nicolas Lécureuil 2016-12-31 11:07:36 CET

CC: (none) => mageia
Assignee: kde => bugsquad

Comment 10 Marja Van Waes 2017-01-02 00:43:29 CET

Closing as OLD, because this report is both old and too confusing to be usable.

Please file a new report if needed.

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