Debian Bug report logs - #970020
gdm3: System X11 Default shouldn't be shown when X isn't installed

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Package: gdm3; Maintainer for gdm3 is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for gdm3 is src:gdm3 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Wout B <wbertrums@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:57:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version gdm3/3.36.2-1

Fixed in version 41.0-1

Done: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, wbertrums@gmail.com, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#970020; Package gdm3. (Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:57:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Wout B <wbertrums@gmail.com>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to wbertrums@gmail.com, Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:57:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Wout B <wbertrums@gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gdm3: System X11 Default shouldn't be shown when X isn't installed
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:55:47 +0200
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.36.2-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: wbertrums@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

When only having a non-GNOME (Wayland) session installed, such as Sway,
GDM will by default choose Debian's "System X11 Default" session. This
results in it immediately going back to the login screen when trying to
login, unless you manually change what session you use. The "System X11
Default" session shouldn't even be shown if there is no X server
installed, and preferably also not if a X server is installed but no X
session is installed (when using Xwayland that'd be the case).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled



Reply sent to Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:24:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Wout B <wbertrums@gmail.com>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:24:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 970020-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
To: 970020-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#970020: gdm3: System X11 Default shouldn't be shown when X isn't installed
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 14:20:52 +0000
Version: 41.0-1

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:55:47 +0200, Wout B wrote:
> When only having a non-GNOME (Wayland) session installed, such as Sway,
> GDM will by default choose Debian's "System X11 Default" session.

Since 41.0-1, the "System X11 Default" session is no longer provided
at all.

    smcv



Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 28 Feb 2022 07:25:16 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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