The first time I select live user from the user list on a just-booted live cd, I get a cancel and a logout button (no password entry, correctly) I choose cancel. The second time I select live user, I just get a cancel button (still no password entry, correctly) I choose cancel - what else ?! The third time I select live user, I see the cancel button for a split second, but this time gdm proceeds to start the session.
I've reproduced and addressed this issue in 2.28.1-24.fc12 marking modified
Adding to blocker list so it gets on the appropriate radars.
as stated on IRC, my opinion is this is not sufficiently serious to be a blocker and not even serious enough to touch gdm code to fix, at this late stage. clicking 'cancel' on the only available user on the live CD is a pretty weird thing to do, and the impact of the bug is not terrible. I won't protest if the decision goes the other way, though. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
First impressions are important. The login screen of the live cd is something a new users sees even before the installer.
There seemed to be a loose consensus (modulo adamw) on irc at the time that this should get tagged and go in if we need to respin for other reasons, but not force a respin on its own.
For reference, the change in question is: @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ gdm_greeter_login_window_start_session_when_ready * so they can pick language/session. Will need to refactor * a bit so we can share code with timed login. */ - if (!login_window->priv->timed_login_enabled) { + if (strcmp (service_name, "gdm-autologin") != 0) { g_debug ("GdmGreeterLoginWindow: Okay, we'll start the session anyway," "because the user isn't ever going to get an opportunity to"
mclasen: but they don't see this bug unless they pick a user account and then hit cancel, which is a rather unusual operation. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
I think this got tagged, didn't it? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
yup