Bug 1403597 - Automatic multiseat is broken with kdm in Fedora 25
Summary: Automatic multiseat is broken with kdm in Fedora 25
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kde-workspace
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-11 19:28 UTC by Oleg Samarin
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:44:00 UTC
Type: Bug
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Fixed finding systemd libraries (3.31 KB, patch)
2016-12-11 19:28 UTC, Oleg Samarin
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1404849 0 unspecified CLOSED Multiseat broken with GDM 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 1404849

Description Oleg Samarin 2016-12-11 19:28:05 UTC
Created attachment 1230654 [details]
Fixed finding systemd libraries

Description of problem:

In Fedora 25 automatic multiseat is broken in kdm.

It worked fine in Fedora 24

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdm-4.11.22-16.fc25.x86_64
systemd-231-10.fc25.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F25
2. Switch display manager to KDM
3. Configure multiseat

Actual results:
KDM login screen appears only on the seat0 display

Expected results:
KDM login screen should appear on all seats 


Additional info:
The reason is changing in distribution of systemd. The earlier versions of systemd provided separate libraries linsystemd-login and libsystemd-daemon, but the new one provides only libsystemd instead.

The support of multiseat was introduced in kdm with a patch https://github.com/PhantomX/slackbuilds/blob/master/kde/kde-workspace/patches/kde-workspace-4.11.1-kdm-logind-multiseat.patch

That patch checked the existance of systemd-libraries and defined the WITH_SYSTEMD compilation variable. Because the systemd distribution changing, the old method of checks can not more find appropriate libraries and does not more defines WITH_SYSTEMD.

The patch attached fixes searching new systemd libraries. After rebuilding kde-desctop with the patch, multiseat works again

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