On 05/22/2018 01:24 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@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.org/thread/TOHHLOSATWWU3QQEKXKBYQP4NSGMNJ4L/#4YJSDVXBFH4X3E3ZLI2CM5EXG6D2PJ2I > > 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Fear is finding a ".vbs" script in your Inbox - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S3BRQMWTEFQSY7YLDLPJHCYQPTC2KJX4/
