[Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)
Hi everybody, I could use a hand with auto-login on SoaS. We've been using slim so far but will switch in the near future (in fact, I already committed a change in GIT), as we also need to login automatically after killing / restarting X. Therefore, the most feasible solution seems to be olpc-dm from the olpc-utils right now. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it successfully to work and am lost with a black screen on tty1 so far. Looking at /var/log/message, the following stuff seems spurious: olpc-dm: Can't get tty name: inappropriate ioctl for device init: prefdm main process terminated with status 1 The occurs quite a few times and running initctl start prefdm manually from the console also gives a "prefdm respawning too fast". On the other hand, running olpc-dm directly as root works, though. If anybody has an idea how to fix this, meaning to get auto-login to work again, any help is greatly appreciated. We can also provide the current snapshot pre-built as an .iso file, if required. Feel free to contact me directly, too. Thanks, --Sebastian Dziallas for the SoaS Team ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I could use a hand with auto-login on SoaS. We've been using slim so far > but will switch in the near future (in fact, I already committed a > change in GIT), as we also need to login automatically after killing / > restarting X. > > Therefore, the most feasible solution seems to be olpc-dm from the > olpc-utils right now. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it > successfully to work and am lost with a black screen on tty1 so far. > > Looking at /var/log/message, the following stuff seems spurious: > > olpc-dm: Can't get tty name: inappropriate ioctl for device > init: prefdm main process terminated with status 1 > > The occurs quite a few times and running initctl start prefdm manually > from the console also gives a "prefdm respawning too fast". > > On the other hand, running olpc-dm directly as root works, though. > > If anybody has an idea how to fix this, meaning to get auto-login to > work again, any help is greatly appreciated. We can also provide the > current snapshot pre-built as an .iso file, if required. > > Feel free to contact me directly, too. So did you got this working by yourself? Regards, Tomeu > Thanks, > --Sebastian Dziallas for the SoaS Team > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 16:48, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I could use a hand with auto-login on SoaS. We've been using slim so far >> but will switch in the near future (in fact, I already committed a >> change in GIT), as we also need to login automatically after killing / >> restarting X. >> >> Therefore, the most feasible solution seems to be olpc-dm from the >> olpc-utils right now. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it >> successfully to work and am lost with a black screen on tty1 so far. >> >> Looking at /var/log/message, the following stuff seems spurious: >> >> olpc-dm: Can't get tty name: inappropriate ioctl for device >> init: prefdm main process terminated with status 1 >> >> The occurs quite a few times and running initctl start prefdm manually >> from the console also gives a "prefdm respawning too fast". >> >> On the other hand, running olpc-dm directly as root works, though. >> >> If anybody has an idea how to fix this, meaning to get auto-login to >> work again, any help is greatly appreciated. We can also provide the >> current snapshot pre-built as an .iso file, if required. >> >> Feel free to contact me directly, too. > > So did you got this working by yourself? Yup, fixed! :) Thanks, --Sebastian > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> Thanks, >> --Sebastian Dziallas for the SoaS Team >> ___ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > ___ > Devel mailing list > de...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)
Regarding getting auto-login to work after restarting X. Yesterday I looked at the slim sources and it seems at first sight easy to add auto login of the default user after the first login. Any interest in me trying to implement this? If we use an extra option to slim we could push this change upstream to Fedora and then we do not have to maintain our own manager (olpc-dm). But maybe Sebastian is already happy with a working olpc-dm. Ton van Overbeek ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)
Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Regarding getting auto-login to work after restarting X. > > Yesterday I looked at the slim sources and it seems at first sight easy > to add auto login of the default user after the first login. > Any interest in me trying to implement this? > If we use an extra option to slim we could push this change upstream > to Fedora and then we do not have to maintain our own manager (olpc-dm). > But maybe Sebastian is already happy with a working olpc-dm. > > Ton van Overbeek Ahhh! Sorry, I missed this entirely and just noticed it in another folder when going through my e-mail today. Well, I certainly wouldn't mind if you went ahead and gave it a try, but I'm not sure how likely it is that this change would be accepted, pushed into a release and then packaged for Fedora. Well, you're right, I'm happy with a working olpc-dm, but I'm also always looking for ways to improve SoaS... ;) Thanks a lot, --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)
Sorry, I was once again victim of GMail's interface and answered only to Sebastian instead of to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) Date: Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 19:05 Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login) To: Sebastian Dziallas Hi, On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 19:00, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Ton van Overbeek wrote: >> Regarding getting auto-login to work after restarting X. >> >> Yesterday I looked at the slim sources and it seems at first sight easy >> to add auto login of the default user after the first login. >> Any interest in me trying to implement this? >> If we use an extra option to slim we could push this change upstream >> to Fedora and then we do not have to maintain our own manager (olpc-dm). >> But maybe Sebastian is already happy with a working olpc-dm. >> >> Ton van Overbeek > > Ahhh! Sorry, I missed this entirely and just noticed it in another > folder when going through my e-mail today. Well, I certainly wouldn't > mind if you went ahead and gave it a try, but I'm not sure how likely it > is that this change would be accepted, pushed into a release and then > packaged for Fedora. One thing to keep in mind: it would have to be actually accepted *upstream* before it can go in Fedora. Also, Rawhide is now frozen for F12Alpha, so even if that's accepted upstream, if you want this change in Fedora 12, you'll have to ask a freeze break to Rel-Eng. [1] Better do it quick :) Best regards, [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy -- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
