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--- Begin Message ---
Package: sddm
Version: 0.12.0-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
SDDM offers a "failsafe" session. Selecting that session and logging in makes
SDDM freeze.
(So, rather ironically, "failsafe" fails.)
The log says:
Invalid session "/usr/share/xsessions/failsafe.desktop"
And indeed no such file exists, nor could I find a file with that name anywhere
with apt-file.
I can't tell why SDDM even offers that session.
Kind regards,
Ralf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages sddm depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.57
ii libc6 2.19-20
ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-17
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libqt5core5a 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5dbus5 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5gui5 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5network5 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5qml5 5.5.0-2
ii libqt5quick5 5.5.0-2
ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-17
ii libsystemd0 226-3
ii libxcb-xkb1 1.10-3+b1
ii libxcb1 1.10-3+b1
ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.5.0-2
ii sddm-theme-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.4.1-1
sddm recommends no packages.
Versions of packages sddm suggests:
pn libpam-kwallet5 <none>
-- debconf information:
sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.13.0-1
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 16:19:49 +0200 Ralf Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: sddm
Version: 0.12.0-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
SDDM offers a "failsafe" session. Selecting that session and logging in makes
SDDM freeze.
(So, rather ironically, "failsafe" fails.)
The log says:
Invalid session "/usr/share/xsessions/failsafe.desktop"
And indeed no such file exists, nor could I find a file with that name anywhere
with apt-file.
I can't tell why SDDM even offers that session.
Kind regards,
Ralf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages sddm depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.57
ii libc6 2.19-20
ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-17
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1
ii libqt5core5a 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5dbus5 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5gui5 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5network5 5.5.0+dfsg-7
ii libqt5qml5 5.5.0-2
ii libqt5quick5 5.5.0-2
ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-17
ii libsystemd0 226-3
ii libxcb-xkb1 1.10-3+b1
ii libxcb1 1.10-3+b1
ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.5.0-2
ii sddm-theme-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.4.1-1
sddm recommends no packages.
Versions of packages sddm suggests:
pn libpam-kwallet5 <none>
-- debconf information:
sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
The synthetic Failsafe session entry was removed upstream by commit
55837107724c6a2029b4ed534b500084f752b540, included in upstream
0.13.0 and Debian 0.13.0-1.
Closing with the historical fixed version.
Regards,
Boyuan Yang
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