GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775972
gdm autologin not working under Wayland session
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:29:42 UTC
Description of problem: In "Gnome settings / Users" i switch slider "Automatic login" to "ON" then reboot the system and get gdm login screen instead of automatic login. Ok i checked "/etc/gdm/custom.conf" file and it has following strings: [daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=True AutomaticLogin=sherbakov so settings have been applied with no actual result. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Installed Packages Name : gdm Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 3.22.1 Release : 1.fc25 Size : 2.1 M Repo : @System Summary : The GNOME Display Manager URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GDM License : GPLv2+ Description : GDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up, : log out, and when user-switching. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open up Gnome settings 2. Go to "Users" menu 3. Choose your account, press unlock button 4. Type user password 5. Switch slider "Automatic login" to "ON" 6. Reboot or log out (then log in) Actual results: gdm login screen asks the password for user to log in Expected results: Automatic login while system boots up.
I encounter the same problem: no more autologin after upgrading from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25.
Update: this problem seems indeed related to Wayland. In my case, the problem disappeared after setting WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf.
I'm also seeing this behavior. In fact, if I enable Auto Login, not only does it _not_ auto log that account in, but it actually prevents me from getting past the lockscreen at all! Entering the correct password at the lock screen simple presents me with the lock screen again! Switching to a regular terminal, logging in, and issuing `startx` works fine, or setting the login shell to be either "Gnome Classic" or "Gnome on Xorg" also bypasses the issue, so it definitely seems related to Wayland. Fedora 25 x86_64, 100% patched as of 6/12/17 gdm version 3.22.3-1.fc25
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