Testing request: gdm-on-Wayland on hybrid graphics laptops (esp. Macbooks)

[Paul Wouters]

I had gdm issues on my f19 to f22beta upgrade too. Startx worked. Worse, the lock screen cannot unlock. Claims wrong passwd. Killing Xorg just led to restarted locked screen. Only way out was init 1

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> On May 14, 2015, at 16:01, Adam Williamson <adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks!
> 
> We have a somewhat-worrying proposed blocker for F22:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218787
> 
> it appears that after a successful installation of Workstation on the
> affected system, GDM-on-Wayland fails to start correctly but also does
> not fall through (as it should) to GDM-on-X, leaving the user with a
> black screen and no obvious way to proceed. This is obviously a bad
> bug, but so far it has only been observed on one test system (a Macbook
> Pro 8,2) by one tester. A few other testers have tried to reproduce on
> other hybrid graphics systems, but have not been able to.
> 
> It would be very helpful to get some more data here. If anyone has a
> hybrid graphics laptop and can spare some space (or perhaps attach an
> external drive) for a test F22 install, can you please try installing
> F22 Workstation TC3 and creating a user:
> 
> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/22_TC3/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-
> Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-TC3.iso
> 
> then boot the installed system, and see if GDM appears correctly?
> Thanks.
> 
> Note there is a different bug which causes GDM-on-Wayland to flicker on
> some hardware:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218688
> 
> that's something different, and is a bit further along in the
> diagnosis/fix process, so we probably don't need further reports of
> that one (though once a fix arrives, it'd be good to have folks test
> it).
> 
> If you find you seem to be affected by the bug, please add your details
> to the report. If you test and find you're *not* affected by the bug -
> you see GDM properly - please reply to one of the mailing lists, so we
> can get some idea of the proportions of affected vs. non-affected
> testers. Thanks a lot for your help, folks!
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