As part of the display manager rework feature we are removing prefdm.service from the distribution which previously included an ordering dependency "After=livesys-late.service". To ensure that livesys-late.service is properly ordered before the display manager, please update it in the livecd-tools packages to include "Before=display-manager.service" instead. For more information see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework
Note that prefdm.service is now gone from F18. This means the display manager will now be started too early on the for livesys-later.service, and is hence presumably broken.
I suppose that might well explain why every F18 live image I've built so far has failed to start X correctly...
livesys-late isn't actually a native systemd service, yet. It's still a SysV initscript. I had some patches a while back to at least convert livesys and livesys-late into native systemd services - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739446 . I'll take a look and see if I can fix those up, but if neither I nor anyone else gets around to it, I guess we'd need to keep the dep in display-manager.service :/
(In reply to comment #3) > livesys-late isn't actually a native systemd service, yet. It's still a SysV > initscript. I had some patches a while back to at least convert livesys and > livesys-late into native systemd services - > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739446 . I'll take a look and > see if I can fix those up, but if neither I nor anyone else gets around to > it, I guess we'd need to keep the dep in display-manager.service :/ display-manager.service is not a service, it's a symlink to the chose dm, whether it is gdm, kdm, xdm, ... We really shouldn't have that dep in all those implementations, a single one in the livesys service in the other direction should be more than sufficient.
BTW, a dirty hack to make this work is just write a service file that simply executes the sysv script and that's it. That should be fairly simple. Something like this: [Unit] Before=display-manager.service [Service] ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys-late start Type=oneshot or something like that should already suffice.
Well, that's more or less what I set out to do, in 739446. It got...more complicated. One of those things that started off as a fifteen minute project and ate an entire weekend. I don't recall all the reasons it turned out not to be so trivial, but there were some.
For the record, we should keep an After: livesys-late.service in all DM services until this is done. Doing it the other way around is the 'right' way, but it's not easy, I don't have time to fix it, and no-one else seems inclined to at present...
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So, neither gdm.service nor sddm.service has "After: livesys-late.service". lightdm.service and lxdm.service do. But GNOME and KDE live images do tend to work. Not sure what's going on there.
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