RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Auto Login

I added your changes to my fsscript and just re-ran the stage2 build.
Now all of the sudden I am back to erroring out. The rc-updates finish
fine, then it grabs pciids. Then says the following:

Done.
Error, cannot setup splash theme livecd-2005.1
!!! catalyst: Preclean runscript failed.


What the heck?

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Gianelloni [mailto:wolf31o2@g.o] 
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:06 PM
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Auto Login

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:37 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> Well I am back up and running, my image boots great once again. I am
> adding a user named gentoo in my stage2 spec with livecd/users:
> gentoo. In my fsscript I edit the rc.conf and set the following
> values:
>
>
>
> EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm
>
> XSESSION="Gnome"
>
>
>
> I also set the gdm.conf to autologin user gentoo in 10 seconds. When I
> boot and X starts I get the gdm screen and the counter is ticking,
> user gentoo is logged in but Gnome does not start. The changes in
> rc.conf should start Gnome by default unless there is a .xinitrc in
> the user directory. At least that is the impression I am under from
> the comments in rc.conf. I double checked Gnome is
> in /etc/X11/Sessions/. Even if I log out and get back to gdm, and
> manually select Gnome, it doesn't start. Any thoughts?

Here's what I do:

echo "[Desktop]" > /home/gentoo/.dmrc
echo "Session=gnome" >> /home/gentoo/.dmrc
chown -R 1000:100 /home/gentoo

Remember that session managers do *not* read .xinitrc, but read .dmrc
instead.  I honestly don't know why it doesn't work as it is supposed
to, but I do know that this solution works.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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