Bug 20079

Summary: gdm forgets about autologin when Wayland session fails and it falls back to Xorg
Product: Mageia Reporter: Martin Whitaker <mageia>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: GNOME maintainers <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marja11, olav
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: gdm-3.22.1-2.mga6.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: journal from Live DVD boot with gdm debug enabled

Description Martin Whitaker 2017-01-05 17:14:49 CET
Created attachment 8836 [details]
journal from Live DVD boot with gdm debug enabled

Testing a Live GNOME DVD with the proprietary nvidia340 driver. As expected, the initial gdm-wayland-session fails and gdm falls back to using a gdm-x-session. But it then goes to the login screen, instead of reattempting the autologin.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-01-06 14:26:01 CET
@ Olav

Please assign to yourself if I should have assigned to you instead of to the "Gnome maintainers"

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

Comment 2 Mageia Robot 2017-01-06 16:33:30 CET
commit 160340248c7aa8462129b24792d9baae11346511
Author: Martin Whitaker <mageia@...>
Date:   Fri Jan 6 15:22:04 2017 +0000

    live.cfg: for GNOME, disable Wayland when we know it won't work.
    
    This works around the gdm autologin bug (mga#20079).
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/build-system/draklive-config/commit/?id=160340248c7aa8462129b24792d9baae11346511
Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2019-04-13 22:09:25 CEST
Latest GDM appears to automatically detect that Wayland won't work when the nvidia340 driver is used, so I can no longer test the fallback behaviour.

Leaving the workaround in place.

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