Bug 1481192

The lightdm is already installed by Anaconda in this phase, so this is probably bug in the lightdm package.

Changing components.

Post the lightdm logs and Xorg.0.log

Created attachment 1316226 [details]
screenshot of seat greeter log

I have tested the basic desktop install and the lightdm log indicated a greeter issue so I checked the seat greeter log (see screenshot).

You should never use lightdm-autologin-greeter for these things. It's intended to be used for kiosks and things like that.

See the README.distro for details: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lightdm-autologin-greeter/blob/master/f/lightdm-autologin-greeter.README.distro

Switch to lightdm-gtk or some other greeter.

(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #4)
> You should never use lightdm-autologin-greeter for these things. It's
> intended to be used for kiosks and things like that.
> 
In that case why is it the default for 'Basic Desktop' on the net installer?
My guess is the lightdm-greeter provides is causing the issue.

Maybe you should remove this if it isn't a proper greeter

# All LightDM greeters provide this
Provides:       lightdm-greeter = 1.2

lightdm-autologin-greeter-1.0-4.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-e2a63143ca

I'd suggest something like this in lightdm too:

diff --git a/lightdm.spec b/lightdm.spec
index 45f42ca..8a8c293 100644
--- a/lightdm.spec
+++ b/lightdm.spec
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Name:    lightdm
 Summary: A cross-desktop Display Manager
 Version: %{major}.%{minor}
-Release: 5%{?dist}
+Release: 6%{?dist}
 
 # library/bindings are LGPLv2 or LGPLv3, the rest GPLv3+
 License: (LGPLv2 or LGPLv3) and GPLv3+
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ Requires(pre): shadow-utils
 # leaving this here, means greeters will have to require lightdm too,
 # instead of relying on -gobject, -qt to pull it in
 Requires: lightdm-greeter = 1.2
+# preferred greeter
+Recommends: lightdm-gtk
 
 # needed for anaconda to boot into runlevel 5 after install
 Provides: service(graphical-login) = lightdm
@@ -304,6 +306,9 @@ exit 0
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug 21 2017 Rex Dieter <rdieter> - 1.22.0-6
+- Recommends: lightdm-gtk (#1481192)
+
 * Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng> - 1.22.0-5
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild

(In reply to leigh scott from comment #5)
> (In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #4)
> > You should never use lightdm-autologin-greeter for these things. It's
> > intended to be used for kiosks and things like that.
> > 
> In that case why is it the default for 'Basic Desktop' on the net installer?
> My guess is the lightdm-greeter provides is causing the issue.
> 
> Maybe you should remove this if it isn't a proper greeter
> 
> # All LightDM greeters provide this
> Provides:       lightdm-greeter = 1.2

No, because then if you want only the autologin-greeter, you can't. You'll be forced to have *another one* too.

Don't do things like this. If you want to prefer a specific greeter, use Suggests somewhere. Or fix the comps group. Or something else.

@Rex:

Use "Suggests: lightdm-gtk" rather than Recommends, as that tells the solver to prefer it if no choice is made, rather than forcing it to be installed.

The way to fix this is to just set a "Suggests: lightdm-gtk" in lightdm itself, so that if no selection is made, it'll install that one.

(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #8)

>  Or fix the comps group. Or something else.


Pull request done


https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/161

I've added `Supplements: (lightdm%{?_isa} and lightdm-autologin-greeter)` to lightdm-gtk.  That should fix that issue.

lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-6.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-70b4affd10

lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-6.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-985f7a1cc6

lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-6.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-70b4affd10

lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-6.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-6.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Created attachment 1324361 [details]
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Created attachment 1324362 [details]
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guys, thanks for your time!
went back to testing netinstall with only basic desctop selected, and unfortunately the problem somewhat persists.
on first reboot i do get to see a splash of initial setup window, then a grey background with mouse pointer, then i'm thrown back to tty (screenshot 1) with a same type of loop and unresponsive system.
on the second reboot i dont get passed the tty at all wit a loop after a message "Started job spooling tools".
is it a matter of updating netinstall iso? or could there be another lightdm-related problem? or anything else?
thanks!

have i set the wrong status for this maybe?

maybe anyone tried it on Fedora 27 Beta netinstall?

(In reply to art from comment #22)
> maybe anyone tried it on Fedora 27 Beta netinstall?

I consider it is your job to test it.

thanks for a quick reply.
sorry, my hdd died a few days ago, so i'm on tablet only for a time being

(In reply to art from comment #22)
> maybe anyone tried it on Fedora 27 Beta netinstall?

so i finally did a new f27 netinstall, and i didn't face that problem. so thanks guys.