FS#20627 - [kdebase-workspace] kdm doesn't remember last username

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vasyl Demin (zersaa) - Thursday, 26 August 2010, 21:39 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Saturday, 25 September 2010, 18:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 5
Private No

Details

KDM set to remember last user, but the username field is always empty.
Changing owner of "/var/lib/kdm" to "kdm" fixes it.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Saturday, 25 September 2010, 18:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  kdebase-workspace 4.5.1-3 in [staging]
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 27 August 2010, 07:57 GMT
confirmed, changing to kdm:kdm works
Comment by Phlogi (Phlogiston) - Sunday, 29 August 2010, 20:03 GMT
yes chown -R kdm:kdm /var/lib/kdm fixes this issue.
Comment by Robert Meijers (RobertMe) - Saturday, 04 September 2010, 01:35 GMT
On my PC it worked fine, until the 4.5.0 update, on my laptop it never worked (both had the permissions set to root:root after the update). There's also a new report in this bugtracker here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20729
Comment by Phlogi (Phlogiston) - Saturday, 04 September 2010, 09:53 GMT
The directory stayed root:root here as well, so it was not fixed properly.
Comment by Giovanni (ksniffer) - Friday, 24 September 2010, 08:03 GMT
No news? When will be fixed this issue?
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 24 September 2010, 08:53 GMT
seems that there was a typo in the .install file, fixed it in trunk so it will be there for next release.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Friday, 24 September 2010, 12:36 GMT
the fix is included in kdebase-workspace 4.5.1-3 that will be in [staging] soon
Comment by Giovanni (ksniffer) - Friday, 24 September 2010, 12:44 GMT
Thank you Andrea :) .
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Friday, 24 September 2010, 20:03 GMT
could someone test the new package?

http://dev.archlinux.org/~andrea/pkgs/kdebase-workspace-4.5.1-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz
http://dev.archlinux.org/~andrea/pkgs/kdebase-workspace-4.5.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Comment by Robert Meijers (RobertMe) - Saturday, 25 September 2010, 17:32 GMT
Manually set /var/lib/kdm to root:root, installed the package (64 bit), and now the permissions are back to kdm:kdm, so seems to work fine (didn't restart so can't say anything about possible other breakages, but I don't expect one).

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