[Fedora-livecd-list] What is supposed to pull in a display manager?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 16 03:27:28 UTC 2008


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I have been trying to get a games spin in shape and have been doing some
> testing using F10 + updates + updates-testing.
> I found in my tests that no display manager was getting pulled in resulting
> in prefdm restarting enough times to get turned off and X never came up.
> Adding gdm to the package list fixed this problem.
> (On a related note, even after this something tried to run
> gnome-power-manager which wasn't installed.)
> 
> Should the livecd-base kickstart include gdm or is there a better fix
> for this issue?

Games kickstart file should inherit livecd desktop kickstart file 
instead of base. That would fix the issues.

Rahul





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