Hi Mihai, I do not think you are following what I mean. I'll try to illustrate. First some comments on your tests: > Tests: > > 1. reboot normally. > > Result: gnome-shell is started at the login screen: > > ps axuww | grep -w gdm Did you login to Gnome? If so, of course gnome-shell will be started. I tested on my F19 server with WindowMaker, there was no gnome-shell process after login. > 2. reboot without gdm-shell.session: > > mv /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session /tmp > reboot > > Result: graphical screen informing that something went > wrong, try again. > > 3. restore gdm-shell.session and reboot without gnome-shell: > > rpm -e --nodeps gnome-shell > reboot > > Result: no login screen. > Here I have to admit my fault. My comment about removing the session files was not correct. I had similar results on my system too. I dug a bit deeper, and now the comment in the spec file makes more sense. My comments and what I found are below. > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:29:52PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdm.git/tree/gdm.spec#n348> > > > > This is what it says there: > > > > - Require gnome-shell. We no longer use the fallback greeter. > > (Since gdm 3.7.92). > > If you look at the spec file, it includes a session file > > > > (line 283): > > > > %{_datadir}/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session The above file looks like this in F18: [GNOME Session] Name=Display Manager RequiredComponents=gnome-shell;gnome-settings-daemon; IsRunnableHelper=bash -c 'type -p gnome-shell >& /dev/null && /usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated' FallbackSession=gdm-fallback There is another session file called gdm-fallback.session (as mentioned in FallbackSession above), shown below: [GNOME Session] Name=Display Manager RequiredComponents=gdm-simple-greeter;gnome-settings-daemon;polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 RequiredProviders=windowmanager; DefaultProvider-windowmanager=metacity In F19, the gdm-fallback.session file, and the IsRunnableHelper and FallbackSession lines from the gdm-shell.session file are absent. This is how I understand the situation: the fallback session was removed, that is why the dependency on gnome-shell was introduced so that gdm can work. So my assertion that it is a packaging bug was wrong. It is more of a packaging choice that was made. It is still not a compiled in dependency. This is confirmed by the commit message: commit 23b99629db196fe80b0ae83b1c005f862b484f8a Author: Ray Strode <rstrode@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon May 20 08:04:16 2013 -0400 Require gnome-shell We stopped shipping the fallback greeter session file a while ago, so we really should have the Requires: right. Eventually the fallback stuff is going to move to its own module. I guess then the solution for Ben Greear is easy (since he is using MATE): install a gdm-fallback.session file, add the two lines I mention above at the end of gdm-shell.session and everything should be good. I do not use any parts of Gnome/MATE, so I do not know if MATE uses gnome-shell somehow. If it does, then sadly I cannot help anymore. Hope the above helps someone. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
