On 05/22/2018 03:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/23/18 04:24, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, Francis.Montagnac(a)inria.fr wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>> And I just had lightdm screw up royally. First, upon login I got an
>>>> XFCE polkit error popup, which is singularly useless in telling you
>>>> anything you can troubleshoot with. Then, I had no access to the sound
>>>> hardware on my machine, nor could I enable/disable wireless, play
>>>> with firewall settings or anything else, as polkit thought I didn't
have
>>>> permissions to do anything, nor did it ever pop up an authentication
>>>> dialog.
>>> This is not the fault of lightdm but of pam-kwallet. See this other
>>> thread:
>>>
>>> F27 problems with pam?
>>>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.o...
>> Well, very that's very interesting and, yup, that appears to be what I'm
>> dealing with. Really odd that lightdm would have such a dependency. I
>> could see it if I were using KDE, but wow!
> FWIW, I have an F28/xfce system installed in a VM. It uses lightdm
>
> root 776 1 0 05:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lightdm
> root 876 776 0 05:54 tty1 00:00:10 /usr/libexec/Xorg -core -noreset :0
> -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt1 -novtswitch -background
none
> root 1058 776 0 05:54 ? 00:00:00 lightdm --session-child 12 19
>
> The only "pam" packages installed on the system are...
>
> gnome-keyring-pam-3.28.2-1.fc28.x86_64
> pam-1.3.0-10.fc28.x86_64
> systemd-pam-238-8.git0e0aa59.fc28.x86_64
> pam_krb5-2.4.13-9.fc28.x86_64
> fprintd-pam-0.8.0-2.fc28.x86_64
>
> So, it seems to me, something else you've installed on your system pulled in
> pam-kwallet and it isn't lightdm.
>
> Maybe try removing it to see what else it tries to remove?
I did install KDE at one time, so it's probably from that. Regardless,
I just commented it out of the pam config. I could remove it, I suppose.
I don't expect to use KDE often, if at all.
Well, if the KDE/lightdm combination causes problems then I hope those running, or
attempting to run, that combination will BZ it.
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