Bug#973907: sddm 0.19.0-1 doesnt remeber last session

[Antonio]

In my case "Plasma for Wayland" was selected, which is the first item of
the "Desktop Session" combo box (sddm menu), instead of "Plasma Workspace"
(third item), but once the I selected "Plasma Workspace" again and logged
in, it worked fine.

Bug#973907: sddm 0.19.0-1 doesnt remeber last session

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

> in my case i thought that plasma would pop up, but fluxbox appears

Confirmed. The reason is that sddm 0.19 changed the format of the file
/var/lib/sddm/state.conf
in that the Session contains only the relative path, not the absolute.

Old (0.18) had
Session=/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop
New (0.19) has
Session=plasma.desktop

Let us see whether we can fix that automatically.

Best

Norbert

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Bug#973907: sddm 0.19.0-1 doesnt remeber last session

[Hendrik Lehmbruch]

Package: sddm
Version: 0.19.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
upgrading sddm

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?
reboot and login, now 3 times

   * What was the outcome of this action?
in my case i thought that plasma would pop up, but fluxbox appears

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
i would like to see a plasma-session (last-session) with out choosing it after
every reboot/logout and not the first in the line (fluxbox in my case)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.6-towo.1-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages sddm depends on:
ii  adduser 3.118
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.74
ii  libc6   2.31-4
ii  libgcc-s1   10.2.0-16
ii  libpam0g1.3.1-5
ii  libqt5core5a5.15.1+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5dbus5 5.15.1+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5gui5  5.15.1+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5network5  5.15.1+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5qml5  5.15.1+dfsg-3
ii  libqt5quick55.15.1+dfsg-3
ii  libstdc++6  10.2.0-16
ii  libsystemd0 246.6-2
ii  libxcb-xkb1 1.14-2
ii  libxcb1 1.14-2
ii  qml-module-qtquick2 5.15.1+dfsg-3
ii  x11-common  1:7.7+21
ii  xauth   1:1.0.10-1
ii  xserver-xorg [xserver]  1:7.7+21

Versions of packages sddm recommends:
ii  haveged1.9.8-4
ii  libpam-systemd 246.6-2
ii  sddm-theme-2001 [sddm-theme]   1.1
ii  sddm-theme-debian-elarun [sddm-theme]  0.19.0-1
ii  sddm-theme-patience [sddm-theme]   2018.3.0-1

Versions of packages sddm suggests:
ii  libpam-kwallet5   5.20.2-1~np1
pn  qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin  

-- debconf information:
  sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm