[Fedora-livecd-list] What is supposed to pull in a display manager?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Dec 16 03:42:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:57:28 +0530,
  Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I have been trying to get a games spin in shape and have been doing some
>> testing using F10 + updates + updates-testing.
>> I found in my tests that no display manager was getting pulled in resulting
>> in prefdm restarting enough times to get turned off and X never came up.
>> Adding gdm to the package list fixed this problem.
>> (On a related note, even after this something tried to run
>> gnome-power-manager which wasn't installed.)
>>
>> Should the livecd-base kickstart include gdm or is there a better fix
>> for this issue?
>
> Games kickstart file should inherit livecd desktop kickstart file  
> instead of base. That would fix the issues.

That seems to make sense. I'll change the games dvd kickstart to use
the livecd desktop kickstart.




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