New SoaS build soas68

[Martin Dengler]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:01:41AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>> gpm autologin was broken in rawhide; it's now fixed.  If you do
>> something like:
>>  yum -y install gpm --nogpgcheck
>> ..it should fix it.
>
> Using yum to (re)install gdm did get beyond the earlier stall -- though I 
> had to first press <esc> to "awaken" the login window, and follow that by 
> clicking on "soas user" to actually launch the login.
>
> This shows the vulnerability of the login process to a "single point
> of failure".  When 'gdm autologin' broke, the user was *not* being
> offered any opportunity to bring up the gui any other way

Indeed.  One alternative is to write our own session manager, like
OLPC has.  I'm not signing up for that.

> (once the gdm had stalled, even startx from a text console did not
> work).

I did actually have startx work fine for me (as liveuser).  It didn't
work for you?

> mikus

Martin
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