[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#831502: Bug#831502: sucrose: Freezes X after initial configuration

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (2016-07-17 07:52:28)
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 01:35:51AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (2016-07-16 18:11:03)
> > > I wanted to try out sugar. Hence I installed succrose using 
> > > apt-get (up-to-date testing system).
> > > 
> > > Next I switchted my environment so sugar on sddm.
> > > 
> > > After entering my credentials I was asked a few questions (age, 
> > > gender).
> > > 
> > > Then sddm returned but does no longer react to mouse or keyboard 
> > > input. The mouse is also a big arrow.
> > > 
> > > I can restart x (Cmd-Alt-Backspace).
> > > 
> > > Whenever I choose sugar again, the only effect is that the mouse 
> > > cursor changes as described above and I can no longer use sddm.
> > > 
> > > I did not find anything on the sugar wiki helping me :-((
> > 
> > This I have never heard of before - but also I have never used sddm.
> > 
> > Please try use another login manager.  You should not need to remove 
> > sddm, just install one more, e.g. lightdm, and pick that as the 
> > default.
> 
> Ok, I switched to lightdm. When I select sugar, my credentials are 
> accepted, I briefly see this thick cursor and then I'm immediately 
> returned to lightdm.

Anything suspicous in logfiles?  E.g. ~/.xsession-errors and 
~/.sugar/default/logs/*

You might also try enable some of the options in ~/.sugar/default/debug 
to see if that reveals something suspicious.


> Just a wild guess: Does sugar need something (session-manager?) from 
> GNOME? There is no gnome on this machine (only KDE and windowmaker).

I do not have gnome-core package installed (assuming that's what you 
mean) and my system succeeds login to Sugar.

Sugar needs what is declared as dependencies and recommendations.  
Looking closer at your original bugreport, I notice now that you've 
suppresed quite a few recommendations.

Beware that recommendations are *not* suggestions: For each 
recommendation, you criple a common functionality (whereas suggestions 
only cripple exotic functionality).

The bugreport tool only enumerates direct recommendations of the package 
you reported against and those specifically seem unlikely to have caused 
the reported failure, but if you've been similarly aggressive in 
suppressing recommendations elsewhere in your package tree, then burden 
is on to ensure your system really can do what you want it to do!


 - Jonas

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