Bug 700339

Summary: accountsservice breaks gdm if autologin
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard Hitt <rbh00>
Component: accountsserviceAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Richard Hitt 2011-04-28 07:43:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
accountsservice breaks gdm if autologin is set for user


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
accountsservice-0.6.9-4.fc15.i686 on Fedora 15 Beta


How reproducible:
Always.  At every boot, the gui spinner spins forever.
Without auto-login set, the normal login choice menu appears fine.
Note that this problem does not occur with
the previous version, accountsservice-0.6.7-1.fc15.i686.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insure accountsservice is at the 6.9-4 level
2. Set your user to autologin:
  a. In upper-right corner, left-click on username
  b. Select "My Account"
  c. Unlock.
  d. Click the Automatic Login button until "ON" appears
  e. Close by clicking upper-right X
3. Reboot
4. Observe that the spinner continually spins
  
Actual results:
No autologin occurs.  No login prompt occurs at all.  System must be accessed by other means, for instance Control-Alt-F2.

Expected results:
Autologin should occur.  And with 6.7-1 it does occur just fine.

Additional info:
freenode:#fedora-qa nicks nanonyne and frankwe helped me with this
problem.  It was frankwe who suggested doing "yum downgrade accountsservice\*" to see what would happen.  It was nanonyne who suggested I try booting to initlevel 3, logging on, and doing startx; that worked.  My nick on that IRC channel is richtroye.
Comment 1 Elad Alfassa 2011-04-28 07:45:10 UTC 
*** Bug 700310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Richard Hitt 2011-04-28 21:56:59 UTC 
This problem does not occur with accountsservice-0.6.9-1.fc15

A 'yum update' as of 3PM Apr 28 2011 -0700 updated 0.6.7-1 to 0.6.9-1 rather than the previous, apparently more recent, 0.6.9-4.  With 0.6.9-1, a reboot is successful and completes with a properly autologged-in user.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2011-04-28 22:07:02 UTC 
This has been fixed in accountsservice-0.6.9-5.fc15