Bug 1402105 - gdm autologin not working in Fedora 25
Summary: gdm autologin not working in Fedora 25
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 25
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-06 19:37 UTC by Artem
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:52 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:52:38 UTC
Type: Bug
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GNOME Bugzilla 780520 0 Normal RESOLVED manager: if falling back to X11 retry autologin 2021-02-13 18:42:11 UTC

Description Artem 2016-12-06 19:37:48 UTC
Description of problem:
In "Gnome settings / Users" i switch slider "Automatic login" to "ON" then reboot the system and get gdm login screen instead of automatic login. Ok i checked "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" file and it has following strings:

[daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=sherbakov

so settings have been applied with no actual result.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Installed Packages
Name        : gdm
Arch        : x86_64
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 3.22.1
Release     : 1.fc25
Size        : 2.1 M
Repo        : @System
Summary     : The GNOME Display Manager
URL         : https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GDM
License     : GPLv2+
Description : GDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up,
            : log out, and when user-switching.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up Gnome settings
2. Go to "Users" menu
3. Choose your account, press unlock button
4. Type user password
5. Switch slider "Automatic login" to "ON"
6. Reboot or log out (then log in)

Actual results:
gdm login screen asks the password for user to log in

Expected results:
Automatic login while system boots up.

Comment 1 Jon Heron 2017-01-04 01:07:40 UTC
Confirmed not working here too, same as above.
Anybody know a work around?
Thanks,
Jon

Comment 2 bugzilla.redhat.com 2017-01-04 18:22:11 UTC
Jon,

Yes, uncomment 'WaylandEnable=false' in /etc/gdm/custom.conf to switch from Wayland back to Xorg.  That worked for me on F25.

Thanks,
Mark

Comment 3 Dimitris.G 2017-02-16 01:56:41 UTC
Confirmed As Well the above solution to  uncomment  'WaylandEnable=false' in /etc/gdm/custom.conf seems to fixed the issue with the autologin as well as  a booting loop i was having during boot.

Comment 4 Dimitris.G 2017-02-16 01:57:49 UTC
Login Loop*

Comment 5 brian connolly 2017-03-07 17:00:22 UTC
Workaround in comment #2 worked up to a few days ago.

Comment 6 Jon Heron 2017-03-07 20:35:19 UTC
Yup, now it boots to the desktop but requires you to log into the key ring manually.
Cheers,
Jon

Comment 7 Joerg Werner 2017-03-08 09:56:46 UTC
Even using the workaround from comment #2 doesn't seem to help any more. Still get stuck at the login screen.

Comment 8 brian connolly 2017-03-08 20:19:51 UTC
Gdm updated. Workaround again working. Autologin w/ Wayland not.

Comment 9 Joerg Werner 2017-03-09 10:15:27 UTC
Hi Brian,

thanks for the fast fix. I can confirm the workaround is working again.

Joerg

Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2017-11-16 18:44:04 UTC
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Comment 11 Fedora End Of Life 2017-12-12 10:52:38 UTC
Fedora 25 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2017-12-12. Fedora 25 is
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