Bug 27026

Summary: SDDM autologin tool in MCC accepts a blank (= no) desktop choice
Product: Mageia Reporter: Ralle Mikken <rallemikken>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Normal CC: yvesbrungard
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Screenshot showing the problem of blank desktop

Description Ralle Mikken 2020-08-01 20:40:29 CEST 
Description of problem:
When you set up autologin for the first time, the GUI allows you to finish without selecting a valid desktopsession. The field for this is default empty, and it is not obvious that it has to be filled. A look in /etc/sddm.conf reveals that the session is set to ".session", which is invalid, and autologin fails without any explanation or error message:

[Autologin]
Session=.desktop
User=xxxxx

If you clean up /etc/sddm.conf and try again, the username and sessiontype is preselected in the GUI, and everything is OK. You can not continue without selecting one or the other. Don't ask me why, seems to be a "firsttime"-type bug, and occured once after a clean install of Mageia 8 A1.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xxxxx@localhost:~$ cat /etc/mandriva-release
Mageia release 8 (Cauldron) for x86_64
xxxxx@localhost:~$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.7.9-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Thu Jul 16 09:02:00 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
xxxxx@localhost:~$ date
lø. 01. aug. 20:31:53 +0200 2020
Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2020-08-02 21:43:53 CEST 
Created attachment 11783 [details]
Screenshot showing the problem of blank desktop

Thank you for the report, which this screenshot illustrates (MCC-Start-Autologin).
Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-08-02 21:47:36 CEST 
Sorry for the Welsh; it is the blank drop-down list default entry for the desktop to choose.
Assigning to the tools group.

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Summary: SDDM autologin tool in MCC crippled => SDDM autologin tool in MCC accepts a blank (= no) desktop choice

Comment 3 papoteur 2022-11-16 12:28:12 CET 
I confirm the same.
cat /etc/sddm.conf
# Generated by SDDM Configuration Editor
[Autologin]
Session=.desktop

User=yves

which is not working.
In my case, my desktop is LXQt, but this one is not listed in available sessions under MCC.
I have only:
IceWM
IceWMSession
Openbox
Plasma(X11)

CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia