Bug 4986

Summary:	attempting to change the session using gdm - it does not work
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bogdan Gruescu <gruescubogdan>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	gdm-3.2.1.1-5.mga2.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	requested file

Description Bogdan Gruescu 2012-03-16 18:30:23 CET

Description of problem:

I have GNOME installed and I was interested to see how iceWM looks like.
Normally this should be possible with GDM ...

I've tried several times, it always failed to log into a different session than GNOME.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. log out of GNOME
2. select 'Not listed?' to get the window where you can pick the session
3. choose iceWM (options available: GNOME, GnomeClassic, iceWM, drak3d)
4. enter the user name
5. try to log in

I see briefly how the bullet (selection) switched automatically to GNOME from iceWM and the system log into GNOME instead. The same applies to the rest of the options (GnomeClassic, drak3d), that is, changing session is busted.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-16 18:47:53 CET

you try to use connet with and user without password ?

also can you attach: ~/.xsession-errors 

it works here

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 Bogdan Gruescu 2012-03-16 19:00:27 CET

Created attachment 1780 [details]
requested file

Comment 3 Bogdan Gruescu 2012-03-16 19:06:17 CET

I didn't select a password for user when installing Mageia (I have password only for root). So I log in without a password. Also tried with user name 'xguest' and changing the session doesn't work too.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-16 19:15:45 CET

ok so it's a upstream bug in fact. (and a duplicate in our bugzilla)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634811

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3368 ***

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

Comment 5 Bogdan Gruescu 2012-03-16 20:56:19 CET

Thanks Manuel. Well, I've put a password for user using Mageia Control Centre and this time it worked.
IceWM is quite nice with the oxygen-aya-azul theme. Only the background does not fill the desktop, but there is no easy way to tweak the background. I also tried to log in as root, but I always get the message 'Authentication Failure' and yes, I am very sure that I entered the password correctly. We'll have to wait for upstream, then.