| Summary: | kdm Console Login feature does not work | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Neil Darlow <neil> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | alien, balcaen.john, lmenut, luigiwalser, mageia, mageia, rwobben, ycollette.nospam |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | kdebase4-workspace-4.8.2-5.mga2.src.rpm | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
| Attachments: | Fedora 19 kdmrc file | ||
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Description
Neil Darlow
2012-05-14 23:14:39 CEST
AL13N
2012-05-14 23:18:16 CEST
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alien, mageia
David Walser
2012-05-15 02:22:40 CEST
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luigiwalser Funny (or not) it's the inverse situation in mageia 1 ( #2759 ). I'll issue an update to disable this option since it's not working as it should (since 4.6.x in mga at least since i forgot to test on others distrib). Also something strange here is that it should take you to tty2 according to the default kdm file while you're back to tty1 (which is where Xorg is supposed to run according to the last change submitted by colin ) CC:
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balcaen.john My kdmrc has tty1 listed in ConsoleTTYs so maybe the upgrade from Mageia 1 to Cauldron left the old file in place. I've taken a look at #2759 and I also experience the behaviour of kdm not returning if I remove tty1 from ConsoleTTys. There might be a clue in openSUSE's implementation of this feature because it works for that distribution. I use the feature to recompile and install the NVidia proprietary driver a lot (for openSUSE-11.4 with KDE-4.6.5 before I updated to openSUSE-12.1 with KDE-4.7.2). FWIW, I would recommend just nuking the console login feature anyway. If you're skilled enough to want to use a console login from a DM, then you are skilled enough to be able to use the keys that you'll need to use to go back to the graphical screen later anyway. I strongly believe the DM should be quite minimal in appearance and do only as much as it needs to do. It's just my opinion of course, but designing in hacks (like console login) for "when things go wrong" is likely the wrong approach... we should be aiming for a situation where things don't go wrong :p @coling: I agree with the sentiment ;) If there's an easy way to disable the feature completely e.g. via build options or source code conditional then I'd say do so. If it's just a case of patching out a menu option and leaving dead code present then I'd say it's worth investigating why it doesn't work. Just my opinion. Hi, This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment. Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2. Thanks :) Cheers, marja Keywords:
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David Walser
2012-07-22 21:04:25 CEST
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nicolas.lecureuil @Colin : Any news on this bug. Do you know if somebody has done something with it. Roelof CC:
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r.wobben I'm not aware of anyone doing much with it. Also KDM development upstream is pretty stagnant generally - I think a lot of people are preferring lightDM these days. Go figure. Anyway, I doubt this feature will be fixed, so I'd generally recommend just disabling it (either via theme, config or in code - not sure if the former options are possible). It's such a marginal feature anyway - the people who would know how to use it would also know to use the keyboard shortcut (actually in my experience people would know the keyboard shortcut before they knew about the pointy-clicky method anyway - although I'm sure others would disagree!) confirmed on Mga3 RC, console login just returns to kdm instantly And it's also the case on mageia 3. The console login first tentative returns to kdm instantly, but the second succeed. When I am connected to the console, if I logged out, I should be able to return to kdm by waiting just 40 second, but this feature doesn't work. I need to restart my laptop to be able to login in X mode. Yc CC:
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ycollette.nospam *** Bug 2759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Just in case could you edit your /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc in order to have ConsoleTTYs="" instead of the tty2,.... Making it have ConsoleTTYs="", if you choose Console Login, it just restarts X. Keywords:
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(none) Under Fedora 19, they have: ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6 Ihaven't tried yet this config under mageia, but I will try asap. YC Created attachment 4641 [details]
Fedora 19 kdmrc file
Nicolas Lécureuil
2013-12-19 08:33:58 CET
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Nicolas Lécureuil
2013-12-19 08:34:48 CET
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lmenut In fedora 19, the console login is desactivated. There is a link to a fedora bug in the kdmrc file. Here is the link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966095 i think we will do the same then. Luc do you agree ? (In reply to Nicolas Lécureuil from comment #16) > i think we will do the same then. Luc do you agree ? Yes, I agree. Fixed on git. Luc do you have things to commit before we do a release ?? |