Bug 850766 - lightdm doesn't start after installation
Summary: lightdm doesn't start after installation
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: LiveCD - Xfce
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-22 11:50 UTC by Jan Sedlák
Modified: 2012-09-19 09:51 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-09-19 09:51:45 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jan Sedlák 2012-08-22 11:50:09 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm not sure what is responsible for this, but after installation of XFCE lightdm.service isn't enabled and default display manager is not set, so after reboot it boots only into console login.

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F18 from TC3 release, XFCE desktop
2. Reboot
  
Actual results:
it boots into console login

Expected results:
it should boot into graphical login (DM)

Additional info:
As I said, I'm not sure what is responsible for setting default display manager after installation and neither kdm.service nor lxdm.service starts (in KDE and LXDE), so I'm going to report it to anaconda too.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2012-08-22 11:56:52 UTC
Good question,  according to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework

spins can set DM's via presets

and one can manually run:
systemctl enable --force lightdm.service

but it's unclear how to make stuff "just work" otherwise.

Comment 2 Jan Sedlák 2012-08-24 08:37:36 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850775#c8, here Lennart explains, how should it work.

Comment 3 Gregor Tätzner 2012-08-24 09:00:46 UTC
all right, so the various spins must ship a presets file. Nothing we can do here in the dm packages.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2012-08-24 11:35:26 UTC
ok, so that handles how spins do it, but I'm concerned about dvd (or network) installs too.

Comment 5 Jan Sedlák 2012-09-19 09:51:45 UTC
I have tried it and it works both in live XFCE media and in DVD install now (perhaps some changes in lightdm package), so I'm closing this bug.


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