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.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! > > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a - - kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this. - - -- Linus Torvalds - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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/ZS4F7WCQK2AX7K57E6UBO6J5NLVFHWKS/
