I have spent the last couple of months trying to find the issue with the Cinnamon Desktop not automatically logging in when building an ISO. See issue: Need help with Live Buildiso - #24 by growler A quick summary of the issue: when booting the Live ISO, it may or may not automatically login for th…

There is a break-through in the troubleshooting Troubleshooting launching xfce/any session on live ISO - #100 by linux-aarhus I have tested almost all iso-profiles using the mentioned approach - and it works for all of them. There may be some polishing left but I think @philm hit an ore with th…

Probably the same issue as with the official flavors. @linux-aarhus invested a lot of time debugging it and more or less it is clear how this happens but why is still a mystery. Don’t know if you can access the Dev section of the forum where this topic is. So you are not alone with the head banging…

Hi @Teo , I can access the “Manjaro Development” categories, but I have not found any posts there regarding this issue. Maybe it is only for internal devs. Good to know it is trying to be addressed… João

Here are the findings so far [image] Troubleshooting launching xfce/any session on live ISO Manjaro Development EDIT: 2026-07-20T22:00:00Z (UTC) Remember, this topic was created 2026-07-09T22:00:00Z (UTC) and only after a serious amount of local troubleshootin…

You may eliminate the need for entering the password if you place following files in the <edition>/livefs/etc/pam.d folder The files are related to lightdm and is slightly modified. Technically I took the files from <builddir>/buildiso/<profile>/x86_64/desktopfs/etc/pam.d and copied them to the is…

[image] DeLinuxCo: the current Manjaro Cinnamon ISO There’s a newer ISO here: [image] I3 Manjaro dead? manjaro.org I was able to get the Manjaro Community Editions CI running again and out came ISOs. Please test them out and provide feedback. If they tu…

@linux-aarhus I will try messing with pam.d, Thank you. I was going through the logs of a live ISO and I noticed something, probably nothing to do with the issue, but here it is: What is being configured for the root user and shouldn’t anything with the root user happen before the manjaro user i…

Now this fix works, can it be included in livefs automatically or is this a problem?

[image] robin0800: can it be included in livefs automatically I have included it in my test repo - using the shared live-overlay folder structure (see codeberg.org/wonky/iso-profiles/shared/manjaro/live-overlsy ) for reference. I have not yet tested the iso yet, perhaps you will have the hono…

manjaro-cinnamon-199.16-minimal-260718-linux618.iso Intel IGP Lenovo ThinkPad T480 … Ventoy There is a background image in the login window. After about 2 minutes of waiting, the live system starts when I click on the “log in” option

I am afraid it does not boot into a live session for me actually it does boot but needs from 5 to 20 enters to do so

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Teo 16 July 2026 01:49 4

Here are the findings so far