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FS#56829 - [sddm] sddm does not display all session options

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Isaac (isaacwhanson) - Saturday, 23 December 2017, 00:54 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Saturday, 23 December 2017, 09:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

upon installing the latest sddm (0.17.0-3), all session options are not displayed.

expecting: i3, i3 (with debug log), MATE

actual: i3 (with debug log)

can confirm the appropriate .desktop files reside in /usr/share/xsessions

this was found on an automated build of arch using sddm, i3, mate - that was working yesterday with identical build script
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Saturday, 23 December 2017, 09:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  sddm 0.17.0-4
Comment by Daniel Mirkin (DanielH) - Saturday, 23 December 2017, 01:59 GMT
I can confirm this bug: all session options are not displayed.
Expecting: Openbox, LXQt.
Displayed: Openbox (missing LXQt).
Appropriate lxqt.desktop file resides in /usr/share/xsessions.
Downgrading to 0.17.0-2 transiently solves this issue.
Comment by Chih-Hsuan Yen (yan12125) - Saturday, 23 December 2017, 03:18 GMT
GNOME sessions are also gone. Apparently previous PATH patch [1] is the culprit. Not all DEs use absolute paths in their xsession files:

$ grep Exec /usr/share/xsessions/*
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop:Exec=gnome-session
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop:TryExec=gnome-session
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop:Exec=gnome-session
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome-xorg.desktop:TryExec=gnome-session
/usr/share/xsessions/lxqt.desktop:Exec=startlxqt
/usr/share/xsessions/lxqt.desktop:TryExec=lxqt-session
/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/startkde
/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop:TryExec=/usr/bin/startkde

So an appropriate PATH is still necessary.

[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/sddm&id=7527b9612b98b70a49942a6976ca1b273ad74d06
Comment by David McAdoo (geecroof) - Saturday, 23 December 2017, 08:25 GMT
It seems sddm uses DefaultPath internally for executing scripts. empty path breaks it. To fix change DefaultPath= to DefaultPath=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin in /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/sddm.conf

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