On Friday 17 March 2017 09:32:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 08:56:18 Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > > On 170316-21:35+0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> I've just finished (well, you know) installing Gentoo on a new box and > > >> given it an LXDE desktop. Every time I start the desktop, whether by > > >> startx or via lxdm, I immediately get an error box saying "Could not > > >> connect: No such file or directory." Does anyone here recognise this? > > >> Google hasn't helped me. > > > > > > Look up what you get in /var/log/messages at the time of the error. > > Mar 17 09:11:10 webs lxdm-binary[1804]: PAM unable to > dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so): > /lib64/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory Mar 17 09:11:10 webs lxdm-binary[1804]: PAM adding > faulty module: /lib64/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so Mar 17 09:11:10 webs > lxdm-binary[1804]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_selinux.so): > /lib64/security/pam_selinux.so: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory Mar 17 09:11:10 webs lxdm-binary[1804]: PAM adding faulty > module: /lib64/security/pam_selinux.so Mar 17 09:11:10 webs > lxdm-binary[1804]: pam_unix(lxdm:session): session opened for user prh by > (uid=0) Mar 17 09:11:10 webs ck-launch-session[1860]: error connecting to > ConsoleKit > > Also .cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log > > A lot of stuff from vala. No timestamps though - do I get a new run.log each > time LXDE starts, or are new entries appended? I guess it's the former. > > Does the desktop show up regularly besides showing the error message? > > I don't know, as I've never used LXDE before. The screen is plain black, > which doesn't seem right. > > Thanks for the clues, gents. I'll go away and poke around a bit. Maybe run > an emerge -e world.
I don't have a fix for you, but from the errors it seems pam is not happy. Display Managers and various services install pam modules in /etc/pam.d/ to manage user authentication. It seems something is amiss there, or some kind of conflict between gnome-keyring and LXDE. -- Regards, Mick
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