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.
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
sddm-0.13.0 no longer includes a failsafe entry