Fedora 19 spin not logging into gnome

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi,
created vanilla Fedora 19 Live DVD iso from official kickstart files
using livecd-creator.

ISO file builds without issues but when I start it it gets to login
window but doesn't do autologin, clicking on "Live User" just restarts
login manager...

Did anybody manage to get Fedora 19 spin or remix that works ? Can you
share your kickstart?

Is this a know bug?

[Orion Caspar]

I'm trying to build one. However, have you tried with other interfaces,
like lxde, or kde?

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, [e-mail] <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
> created vanilla Fedora 19 Live DVD iso from official kickstart files
> using livecd-creator.
>
> ISO file builds without issues but when I start it it gets to login
> window but doesn't do autologin, clicking on "Live User" just restarts
> login manager...
>
> Did anybody manage to get Fedora 19 spin or remix that works ? Can you
> share your kickstart?
>
> Is this a know bug?
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[Amit Caleechurn]

Hi Valent,

I saw this issue when I tried to spin F19 (beta and final) on a F18
installation. As the live cd is a kind of hack, make sure your architecture
and installation corresponds to what you are trying to build. Auto Login
does not work for the being time, you simply have to click on liveuser to
get to the desktop https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854722

Amit

On 14 July 2013 14:30, Orion Caspar  wrote:
> I'm trying to build one. However, have you tried with other interfaces,
> like lxde, or kde?
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, [e-mail] <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > created vanilla Fedora 19 Live DVD iso from official kickstart files
> > using livecd-creator.
> >
> > ISO file builds without issues but when I start it it gets to login
> > window but doesn't do autologin, clicking on "Live User" just restarts
> > login manager...
> >
> > Did anybody manage to get Fedora 19 spin or remix that works ? Can you
> > share your kickstart?
> >
> > Is this a know bug?
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes
>
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[Valent Turkovic]

Hi,
I have tried creating Fedora 19 Live Desktop DVD iso and Fedora 19 Mate
Compiz spin and in both "liveuser" autologin doesn't work but clicking in
login window on "liveuser" also fails. My guess is that fedora-live-base.ks
doesn't even create "liveuser" and that there is some bug there... because
otherwise at least manual login via mouse click would work but it doesn't :(

I'll try KDE Games spin that Bruno says work ok and XFCE spin next and
report back.

Valent.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Amit Caleechurn wrote:
> Hi Valent,
>
> I saw this issue when I tried to spin F19 (beta and final) on a F18
> installation. As the live cd is a kind of hack, make sure your architecture
> and installation corresponds to what you are trying to build. Auto Login
> does not work for the being time, you simply have to click on liveuser to
> get to the desktop https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854722
>
> Amit
>
> On 14 July 2013 14:30, Orion Caspar  wrote:
> > I'm trying to build one. However, have you tried with other interfaces,
> > like lxde, or kde?
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, [e-mail] <
> > [e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > created vanilla Fedora 19 Live DVD iso from official kickstart files
> > > using livecd-creator.
> > >
> > > ISO file builds without issues but when I start it it gets to login
> > > window but doesn't do autologin, clicking on "Live User" just restarts
> > > login manager...
> > >
> > > Did anybody manage to get Fedora 19 spin or remix that works ? Can you
> > > share your kickstart?
> > >
> > > Is this a know bug?
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > remixes mailing list
> > > [e-mail]
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes
> >
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> >
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[Valent Turkovic]

I have extracted kickstart files from
"fedora-kickstarts-0.19.8-1.fc19.noarch.rpm" and tried xfce with has issue
with both autologin and manual login.

sudo livecd-creator -v --logfile=fedora-xfce.log -f Fedora-XFCE-19.0 -c
fedora-livecd-xfce.ks --releasever=19

qemu-kvm -m 1024 -cdrom Fedora-XFCE-19.0.iso

A I doing something wrong?

[Chris Smart]

On 15/07/13 06:29, [e-mail] wrote:
> A I doing something wrong?

As Amit mentioned, are you building these on f18 or f19? You need to be
building on f19 for it to work. The no-autologin bug appears to be 18
only, it works in 19 for me.

-c

[Valent Turkovic]

I'm building on F18, thanks for the info. I'll update to F19 and build
from there. Usually I had no issues building current Fedora with
previous version of Fedora.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Chris Smart  wrote:
> On 15/07/13 06:29, [e-mail] wrote:
> > A I doing something wrong?
>
> As Amit mentioned, are you building these on f18 or f19? You need to be
> building on f19 for it to work. The no-autologin bug appears to be 18
> only, it works in 19 for me.
>
> -c
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[Amit Caleechurn]

On 15 July 2013 04:05, Chris Smart  wrote:
> On 15/07/13 06:29, [e-mail] wrote:
> > A I doing something wrong?
>
> As Amit mentioned, are you building these on f18 or f19? You need to be
> building on f19 for it to work. The no-autologin bug appears to be 18
> only, it works in 19 for me.
>
> -c
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I've successfully built Gnome and Cinnamon remixes from the latest
kickstart versions. Try to clone the kickstarts from
https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git and try again. If the
user shows up on the gdm/lightdm screens it has been created, try to update
your base (build) distro and set SELinux to permissive and try again. I
would advise you check for these lines in your kickstart and make sure they
are present:

# make sure to set the right permissions and selinux contexts
chown -R liveuser:liveuser /home/liveuser/
restorecon -R /home/liveuser/

I've noted that livemedia-creator is now the preferred way of building live
disks but there seems to be far too little documentation about it right now
so I'm sticking to the livecd-tools. You can take a look at my remix at
http://linuxmauritius.wordpress.com/snowbird-linux/sb-release-19/

@Chris: The auto-login bug seems to be intermittent and related to a race
condition in GDM so it doesn't happen all the time, I suspect it could be
related the order of the %post commands but I'm not too bothered about it
at as I can set it to a timed login and it doesn't hurt to click on the
user name :)

Amit

P.S Switch to a shell when you've booted your spin and try to login (as
liveuser or root) on the console if you see a message that's related to the
user shell and you're logged out immediately (sorry can't remember the
exact error message but i've seen this before) then you have an issue with
your build machine or SELinux.

[Valent Turkovic]

I can confirm that now when I switched to F19 I get ISOs that boot into
desktop via autologin, so issue was on Fedora 18...

I've successfully built Gnome and Cinnamon remixes from the latest
> kickstart versions. Try to clone the kickstarts from
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git and try again. If
> the user shows up on the gdm/lightdm screens it has been created, try to
> update your base (build) distro and set SELinux to permissive and try
> again. I would advise you check for these lines in your kickstart and make
> sure they are present:

Can you please share your Cinnamon kickstart file? How did you make it so
that Cinnamon is the default desktop?

Thanks!

[Amit Caleechurn]

On 16 July 2013 11:47, [e-mail]
wrote:
> I can confirm that now when I switched to F19 I get ISOs that boot into
> desktop via autologin, so issue was on Fedora 18...
>
> I've successfully built Gnome and Cinnamon remixes from the latest
> > kickstart versions. Try to clone the kickstarts from
> > https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git and try again. If
> > the user shows up on the gdm/lightdm screens it has been created, try to
> > update your base (build) distro and set SELinux to permissive and try
> > again. I would advise you check for these lines in your kickstart and make
> > sure they are present:
>
> Can you please share your Cinnamon kickstart file? How did you make it so
> that Cinnamon is the default desktop?
>
> Thanks!
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Valent,

I've copied some of the stuff from the post section which you may find
useful, just include the ones you need. You should also install the
dconf-editor and navigate through the keys to locate the ones you
want/need. Hope this helps ...

%post

*cat >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys << EOF*

# Set Cinnamon as default desktop (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.session.gschema.override <<
FOE
[org.gnome.desktop.session]
session-name='cinnamon'
FOE

# Disable fallback message (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.SessionManager.gschema.override << FOE
[org.gnome.desktop.SessionManager]
show-fallback-warning=false
FOE

# Always use location in nautilus (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.nautilus.preferences.gschema.override
<< FOE
[org.gnome.nautilus.preferences]
always-use-location-entry=true
FOE

# Show desktop icons (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.background.gschema.override
<< FOE
[org.gnome.desktop.background]
picture-uri='file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/Waves.jpg'
show-desktop-icons=true
FOE

# Set the default icon theme (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.interface.gschema.override <<
FOE
[org.gnome.desktop.interface]
icon-theme='Faenza'
buttons-have-icons=true
enable-animations=true
menus-have-icons=true
FOE

# Set Window theme (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.gschema.override
<< FOE
[org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences]
theme='Greybird'
num-workspaces=2
FOE

# Tweak the main menu and enable desktop effects (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >> /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.cinnamon.gschema.override << FOE
[org.cinnamon]
menu-icon='/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/16/system-restart.png'
desktop-effects-on-dialogs=true
desktop-effects-close-effect='fade'
desktop-effects-maximize-effect='scale'
desktop-effects-unmaximize-effect='scale'
date-format='DD-MM-YYYY'
panel-launchers=['firefox.desktop', 'mozilla-thunderbird.desktop',
'gnome-terminal.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop']
favorite-apps=['cinnamon-settings.desktop', 'firefox.desktop',
'mozilla-thunderbird.desktop', 'vlc.desktop', 'nautilus.desktop',
'libreoffice4.0-startcenter.desktop']
FOE

# Disable auto-download-updates (Amit Caleechurn)
cat >>
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates.gschema.override
<< FOE
[org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates]
active=true
auto-download-updates=false
FOE

# Rebuild schema cache with any overrides we installed
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Amit

P.S note that i remove nemo* and use a custom theme/icon in this kickstart.

[Valent Turkovic]

Yes. they all work but you have to be using Fedora 19.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Orion Caspar  wrote:
> I'm trying to build one. However, have you tried with other interfaces, like
> lxde, or kde?
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, [e-mail]
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> > created vanilla Fedora 19 Live DVD iso from official kickstart files
> > using livecd-creator.
> >
> > ISO file builds without issues but when I start it it gets to login
> > window but doesn't do autologin, clicking on "Live User" just restarts
> > login manager...
> >
> > Did anybody manage to get Fedora 19 spin or remix that works ? Can you
> > share your kickstart?
> >
> > Is this a know bug?
> > _______________________________________________
> > remixes mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/remixes
>
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>
> Orion Caspar
>
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> HackShark
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