Bug 1086177

Summary:	failing displaymanager switches console, making it very hard to recover
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Karel Volný <kvolny>
Component:	lxdm	Assignee:	Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	20	CC:	christoph.wickert, johannbg, lnykryn, msekleta, ohadlevy, plautrba, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description Karel Volný 2014-04-10 09:55:48 UTC

Description of problem:
lxdm did not start on my test system.
I wanted to switch to a text console, login and investigate, but the system kept switching me to the first one every 5 seconds.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-208-9.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. do a minimal install
2. yum groupinstall lxde
3. yum install xorg-x11-server-Xorg
(note, do not install xorg drivers - this will prevent the server from starting, thus triggering the bug)
4. systemctl set-default graphical.target
5. reboot
6. 'esc' to unhide startup messages
7. after you see something about login service being started or so, try to switch to another console via alt-f3
8. try to login

Actual results:
8. almost impossible, before you finish entering the credentials, you are switched to tty1 and you don't know how many characters of the password were accepted so where to continue after switching again to tty3 via alt-f3

Expected results:
8. your work is uninterrupted, you stay at tty3 all the time

Additional info:

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2014-06-17 11:51:46 UTC

systemd will automatically restart services if they die and that's requested, but it won't do the VT switching for you, that's somewhere between lxdm and X11. 

Reassigning.

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