Bug 25310

Summary:	gnome-terminal will not start when autologin is set (happens with Light DM and also with GDM)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Alberto Girlando <girlando>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	José Jorge <lists.jjorge>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	gnome, mageia, marja11
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	autologin-1.0.0-38.mga7	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Alberto Girlando 2019-08-15 11:49:01 CEST

Description of problem:
Use autologin, with either LDM or GDM, and with GNOME or Cinnamon. Try to open a gnome-terminal, but it won't start. Alarms by trying to open through xterm do not clarify. You can have gnome-terminal working through xterm only if you make a "su - yourself". Logging out after autologin and making normal login does not solve the problem. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0.0-38.mga7

How reproducible:
Always when autologin is used.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with autologin
2. Try to open gnome-terminal
3. Fail without explanation
4. How to get around: remove autologin

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-08-15 17:15:58 CEST

This is confusing, autologin has:

  Group       : System/Base

but it doesn't seem to get pulled by basesystem-minimal and not even by basesystem:

[marja@DenkBlok4 ~]$ urpmq --requires-recursive basesystem | grep "^a"
aria2
aria2|wget|curl
[marja@DenkBlok4 ~]$

Assigning to autologin's registered maintainer.

CC'ing the Gnome maintainers, in case gnome-terminal is the culprit instead of autologin.

Summary: gnome-terminal will not start when set autologin (eithr with Light DM or GDM) => gnome-terminal will not start when autologin is set (happens with Light DM and also with GDM)
CC: (none) => gnome, marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
Source RPM: 1.0.0-38.mga7 => autologin-1.0.0-38.mga7

Comment 2 José Jorge 2019-08-18 21:23:53 CEST

(In reply to Alberto Girlando from comment #0)
> Use autologin, with either LDM or GDM, and with GNOME or Cinnamon.

Upstream project is dead, and autologin code is now old : it does not follow policykit needs. I'd recommend to use automatic login of SDDM, and not this package anymore.

Comment 3 Martin Whitaker 2019-08-18 22:11:45 CEST

If you use MCC/drakautologin to configure autologin, it only installs/uses the autologin package if you are using the XDM or SLiM DMs.

The GNOME Live ISO uses the GDM autologin facility, and has no trouble starting gnome-terminal. I've just tried enabling autologin here, using LightDM/Cinnamon, and again, no trouble starting gnome-terminal.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 4 Alberto Girlando 2019-08-19 14:20:38 CEST

OK, my fault.. The problem arose when I upgraded from Mageia6 to Mageia 7. I had autologin set up in Mageia 6, and by now I cannot say how it was set up there. And I had problems to understand the reason of this behavior, and if attribute it to gnome-terminal or to something else. I found that removing autologin solved the problem, so I opened the bug. But I did not try to restate autologin from drakautologin. When this is done, all is OK, thanks Martin.

So the bug can be closed (I don't know if I can do myself), it only depended on issues connected to the upgrade and the route I followed (online upgrade with DNF).

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