4alpha3 classic dvd 32 with single default XFCE installation After the main bulk of package installation it gives a screen titled Warning, asking to install GDM. It then installs another 70 odd packages. I'll attach report.bug when it's finished. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
CC: (none) => ennael1, jani.valimaaWhiteboard: (none) => 4alpha3
GDM then defaults to starting a basic gnome desktop rather than XFCE
Created attachment 4392 [details] report.bug.xz
Probably because of this autologin [1] thingie. We need to add autologin support also for lightdm which is the preferred dm for Xfce. It should be easily implemented. All we need to do is create a config file (e.g 90-mageia-autologin.conf) to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ and add following lines to it: [SeatDefaults] autologin-user=<username> CC'ing to djennings who previously added autologin support for slim and lxde. [1] http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/perl-install/any.pm#n665
CC: (none) => derekjenn
Or comment out Xfce from this autologin thingie temporarily as it doesn't use gdm by default.
it is because of autologin http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/any.pm?revision=8406&view=markup#l665 http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx/trunk/perl-install/install/steps.pm?revision=8254&view=markup#l738 (maybe we should drop this step ?)
I confirm both problems: - Installation of gdm - The desktop is not xfce However, However, in my test, autologin is not installed. During the installation, in the choice of the groups of packages, I deselect all the groups and I keep only the desktop Xfce. What installs already 1012 packages, what is a lot. It would not thus be autologin that asks gdm ?
CC: (none) => paiiou
In this case autologin != autologin rpm pkg. Also, gdm pulls gnome-session which ships session config file with higher priority than Xfce one ==> gnome session will be selected when launching dm first time.
Still valid 4beta1. DVD 64 with default XFCE installation.
Whiteboard: 4alpha3 => 4beta1 4alpha3
Summary: XFCE asks to install GDM after main package installation - 4alpha3 Classic DVD 32 => XFCE asks to install GDM after main package installation - DVD installs
doing so brings in another 108 packages, including wpa_supplicant.
Priority: Normal => release_blocker
After the reboot it defaults to booting into a minimal gnome DE rather than XFCE :\
Summary: XFCE asks to install GDM after main package installation - DVD installs => XFCE asks to install GDM after main package installation then boots into minimal gnome - DVD installs
I've created a patch for perl-install/any.pm, but I want to test it locally first. Any advices/instructions how to do it? Local mirror? Which pkgs should I rebuild?
there is some interesting info here: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Drakx-installer_tips_and_tricks
This one seems fixed. It uses xdm now and doesn't install gdm separately. I created a new bug 11641 as there is currently no option to reboot the machine from XFCE.
forgot to close it
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
*** Bug 10686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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