Bug 1222297

Summary: failsafe session does not work
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: René Genz <liebundartig>
Component: sddmAssignee: Martin Bříza <mbriza>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description René Genz 2015-05-17 12:26:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
At display manager screen 'Failsafe' session type does not work.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sddm-0.10.0-4.fc22.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install -y sddm
2. systemctl enable --force sddm.service
3. reboot
4. select 'failsafe' in upper left hand corner and log in

Actual results:
Something seems to be loaded but fails and the visual display falls back to  display manager screen.


Expected results:
Start of a failsafe session, ie. just a terminal.


Additional info:
In order to have a proper shebang line in the file
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession
line 1 should be changed, from my point of view, from:
#! /bin/sh
to
#!/bin/sh

This does not fix the problem, though.

If you install the package 'xterm' the failsafe session works.
Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2015-05-18 07:45:06 UTC 
Hi,

xorg-x11-xinit maintainer here (I came her via bug 1222299). Before this bug gets re-assigned to xorg-x11-xinit, let me say that it will be closed wontfix there, since xorg-x11-xinit is Required: by many other packages too, and we do not want to drag in xterm everywhere.

Most display managers by now only show sessions from /usr/share/xsessions/ which does not contain failsafe. If ssdm wants to display a failsafe option despite that, relying on the ancient failsafe support in the xinit scripts it should add Requires: on the necessary packages to make this work.

Regards,

Hans
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2016-03-12 02:05:17 UTC 
sddm-0.13.0 no longer includes a failsafe entry