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Bug#858709: marked as done (live-config: Resolution changes and lost keystrokes, every 15 seconds)

Your message dated Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:26:43 -0500
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and subject line Re: Bug#858709: live-config: Resolution changes and lost keystrokes, every 15 seconds
has caused the Debian Bug report #858709,
regarding live-config: Resolution changes and lost keystrokes, every 15 seconds
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-live
Severity: normal

I think this will be helpful to anyone who wants to run a GUI in
a live Stretch image in VirtualBox.  None of my work-arounds seem
to be specific to VirtualBox, so this may also be helpful to people
using other (real or virtual) platforms.

I built a live Stretch image with task-kde-desktop, and booted it
in VirtualBox.  I expected to see a logged-in desktop environment,
but instead I saw a screen asking for DEBIAN LIVE USER's password.
Every 15 seconds, the VM's display window would change to a different
resolution and immediately change back, losing any password keystrokes
that I was typing while it was changing.  When I entered the password
I got a desktop environment, working as expected, except the resolution
changes and keystroke loss continued to happen every 15 seconds.

I determined that SDDM, which I don't think is supposed to run at all
on a live system, was successfully running its own X server, while the
autologin facility, which _is_ supposed be running an X server, was
trying and failing to start an X server, repeating every 15 seconds.

I was able to work around these problems by adding " xserver-xorg-legacy"
to config/package-lists/my.list.chroot, and creating an executable file
named config/hooks/live/no-sddm.hook.chroot containing these four lines:

#!/bin/sh
set -e
echo disabling sddm
systemctl disable sddm

######  Live System Information:  ######

    Name                          Version
===-=============================-===================
ii  live-boot                     1:20170112
ii  live-config                   5.20170112
ii  live-tools                    1:20151214+nmu1

Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

######  Host System Information:  ######

    Name                          Version
===-=============================-===================
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.88
ii  live-build                    1:20170213

Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Version: 5.20170112+deb9u1

The problem affected Debian 9.0 through 9.2, but does not affect 9.3.

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