Bug 25201

Summary:	Plasma splash screen SDDM unable to type password for first user
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	lucien peter dufour <Hmong>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	kde, lewyssmith, marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	NEEDINFO
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description lucien peter dufour 2019-07-30 10:14:06 CEST

Description of problem:
using KDE Plasma splash screen : unable to type password unless you click on the next user , then come back on yours to be able to type password .....

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mageia 7 - 5.1.14 desktop-1 - KDE Plasma - 64 bits

How reproducible:
every attempt to login first

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-07-30 21:29:56 CEST

Please can you say:
- What Mageia ISO you installed.
- If the Classic, is Plasma the only desktop you have?
- Confirm that SDDM is the display manager (it will be for Plasma only).
- How many users do you have defined?

We have been using SDDM/Plasma for years without this complaint. I will add a second user to my own system, and test it.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Summary: splash screen => Plasma splash screen SDDM unable to type password for first user

Marja Van Waes 2019-08-01 14:35:47 CEST

CC: (none) => kde, marja11

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2019-08-01 14:37:11 CEST

@ Lucien

Can you try whether typing the password and then hitting "enter" works, even if you can't see that any character gets entered?

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2019-08-06 20:43:35 CEST

I cannot reproduce the fault; more exactly, I cannot (yet) reproduce the conditions in which it occurs. I have SDDM, and added a second user to see what happens. Without any login configuration, SDDM shows the last user logged in; to change the username, you have to type it instead. Then whatever password applies.
No problem.

I will see whether I can get SDDM to present a list of users to click on, as implied by the description.

Whiteboard: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2019-11-24 15:17:02 CET

@lucien

Sorry to have left you for so long. At last I have managed to get an SDDM login screen showing all users, and do not see your fault.
Can you please post the output of:
 $ cat /etc/sddm.conf
which will show the theme used by SDDM - which effects its display of users.
Our normal installation uses theme mga-coffee, which only shows the last (or no) logged-in username; no list.

If you are able to get a screenshot of the login screen, or take a photograph, please add that as an attachment to this bug. It will help to simulate a similar situation.

If your system language is not English, please install the package 'ibus-gtk'. This sometimes resolves obscure problems.

Comment 5 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-19 23:04:07 CEST

Does this bug report still valid?

No answer since a while.
Closing it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
CC: (none) => ouaurelien