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KDE 4.5 RC: Login Manager forgets user name

Bug #601536 reported by David Nemeskey
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kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdm

I am using Kubuntu, and recently I have upgraded to the KDE 4.5 RC packages (http://www.kubuntu.org/node/157). Aside from the upgrade procedure being a total, albeit not luckily once-in-a-lifetime disaster, there are some bugs that can be reproduced easily. This is one of them.

Before the update, kdm remembered the last successfully logged in user (me), and I only had to enter my password to log in. This is not the case anymore: I have to type in my user name as well. I am not ignorant to the existance of the new "Convenience" tab in the Login Manager page of System Settings; however, even though the Preselect User is set to Previous, the behavior remains the same (Actually, I think it had been already set to Previous when I checked it the first time.)

Screenshot attached.

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

  Installed: 4:4.4.90-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa7
  Candidate: 4:4.4.90-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa7
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.4.90-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa7 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.4.2-0ubuntu14 0
        500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

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David Nemeskey (nemeskeyd) wrote :
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Pawel (pslomski64-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I can confirm this. I'm using KDE 4.5 packages, from Kubuntu backports.

Thilo-Alexander Ginkel (thilo.ginkel)
Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Reinhard Berger (geist1) wrote :

You can manualy fix this by yourself :

Open a terminal and enter the following :

cd /var/lib

sudo chgrp kdm kdm
sudo chmod g=rwx kdm

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David Nemeskey (nemeskeyd) wrote :

Reinhard: thanks, that (almost) solved it. Apparently you need to execute both commands recursively, so

sudo chgrp -R kdm kdm
sudo chmod -R g=rwx kdm

Now it works, but still it would be nicer to have a regular (automatic) fix for it.

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Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz) wrote :

Still not working here. Attached is a copy of kdmrc that worked prior to the release of KDE 4.5, but now I have to click on the user before entering the password.

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Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz) wrote :

Think this might have been fixed as when I turned the computer on this morning the log in screen was showing the previous user.

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Szo (szo) wrote :

I can confirm that the chgrp/chmod fixes the problem!

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Sel Goona (alieneye) wrote :

cd /var/lib
sudo chgrp -R kdm kdm
sudo chmod -R g=rwx kdm

 ... solved it. Thank you!

Stefan Fleiter (stefan-fleiter)
Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
status: New → Confirmed
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Oceanwatcher (oceanwatcher) wrote :

Tried the command in #4, but got an error: invalid group. So it does not seem like I have a kdm group!

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Tom Chiverton (bugs-launchpad-net-falkensweb) wrote :

It's busted in the release as well as the RC I'm afraid. At least in my upgrade from 10.04 it was...

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

Still reproducible?

Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) → kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
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Stefan Fleiter (stefan-fleiter) wrote :

Since probably most of us tried the workaround from comment 8 it is difficult to know whether this is fixed.

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Sander van Grieken (sander-vangrieken) wrote :

On a clean install of kubuntu 11.10 I have not seen this problem

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Maarten Bezemer (veger) wrote :

I do also *not* have this problem (and have not 'fixed' it myself) using 11.10. So I suppose it is fixed somewhere along the route?

Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in kde-workspace (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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