Frank: > thanks Brian for the exhaustive responses, I see your point, maybe my problem > is that I see this all to much thru the eyes of existing Solaris (enterprise) > customers.
I appreciate the feedback. We do want to make GDM work well for Solaris (enterprise) customers. I am sure that Frank Ludolph and the Sun XDesign team will have further feedback and improve its branding in the near future. I also can appreciate that some users will not like any given change, so it is good to discuss. I do agree that the extra step of needing to press the "Log In" button that you pointed out is a problem that needs to be fixed. As I mentioned before, Ray Strode is working on rewriting the way GDM works with PAM, and he suggested to me that this will help to fix this problem. So, I was hoping to address this problem once Ray's work is done, which sounds like it will be soon. If Ray's work does not make it upstream by the next release, then I could likely put a patch together to fix this problem in the GDM 2.30 timeframe. > On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:39:20 +0100, Brian Cameron<Brian.Cameron at sun.com> > wrote: > >>> also letting the inital "want to login" box hanging around for some time >>> eventually >>> places an additional error window in the inital login screen that GDM >>> apparently >>> is not able to login the user automatically....ehmm...which user please ? >>> why >>> would it do that by default anyways ? I've not told it todo so.. >> >> Are you talking about doo bug #13208? >> >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13208 >> >> Also build 130 does have a bug with the jack user autologin feature >> being broken. This is mentioned in the release notes. > > nope, not like described in this bug and nothing todo with the liveCD, it was > after upgrading an existing osol_129 to osol_130. > > after some extended period of time letting the inital GDm login screen just > hang > around waiting for the "okay" to login, a window came up telling > me GDM was not able to automatically login the user. (not telling which > user it wanted to autologin though) I don't believe this issue has been reported by anyone else. It would be good if you could file a bug report at defect.opensolaris.org about this. It would also be useful if you could do the following: 1) Edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add the "Enable=true" line after the "[debug]" line so it looks like this: [debug] Enable=true 2) restart GDM by running "svcadm restart gdm" or rebooting. 3) Allow the failure to happen. Then attach the gdm-related debug messages from the tail of your syslog (/var/adm/messages) to the bug report. It does seem odd if GDM thinks you have AutomaticLogin enabled but its not. > I'll see if it happens again and will make sure to make a picture of it ;-) A picture, or the exact text of any error messages you see would also be helpful. Also, it would be useful if you could attach your /etc/gdm/custom.conf file. Thanks, Brian
