Bug 454636

Summary:	kdm cannot start default (Gnome) session when .xsession file exists
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	fedora, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter
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Description Michael Stefaniuc 2008-07-09 14:38:22 UTC

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Description of problem:
kdm cannot start the "Default" Gnome desktop when an even empty .xsession file exists. When "Gnome" instead of "Default" is selected in kdm as session type kdm will be able to start kdm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-workspace-4.0.5-3.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch $HOME/.xsession && chmod u+x $HOME/.xsession
2. Select "Default" (Gnome was the default) session type in kdm
3. Select "Gnome" session type in kdm as comparison

Actual Results:
The screen will go black and the kdm greeter will reaper (Steps to Reproduce: 2.)

Expected Results:
The Gnome desktop starts up (Steps to Reproduce: 3.)

Additional info:
than has seen a live demonstration of the bug.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-07-09 14:51:11 UTC

rpm -q xorg-x11-xinit-session

please

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2008-07-09 14:52:09 UTC

My suspicion is that it is installed, and when it is, tries to use ~/.xsession,
and since it is empty, does nothing, and immediately ends the session.

Comment 3 Michael Stefaniuc 2008-07-09 15:44:49 UTC

Yeah, Than already debugged the problem and explained it to me as "user error":
Default for kdm means use .xsession if it exists else .xclients else Gnome else
KDE, etc. gdm doesn't have this "Default" notion.

Please feel free to close the ticket.