On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, Francis.Montagnac(a)inria.fr wrote:
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> On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote:
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>> 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.
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> This is not the fault of lightdm but of pam-kwallet. See this other
> thread:
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> 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!
Looking at my dnf logs, pam-kwallet got updated (for me) on the 18th,
but I didn't log out until sometime on the 19th. The defecation hit the
impeller yesterday (the 21st) when I logged in for the first time after
the update. Grrrrrr!
I suppose I could just disable the pam_kwallet lines from the pam config
and try again with lightdm. Using lxdm works around the issue for now,
however, so I have a way out in case that's not the issue.
Thanks for the tip, Francis! Ya learn something new everyday.
Follow up: Commented out the references to pam_kwallet.so and
pam_kwallet5.so in /etc/pam.d/lightdm and et Voila! I'm back to lightdm
and Xfce4 with polkit behaving itself.
Thanks again to Francis for pointing me in the right direction!
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