On 05/23/18 06:45, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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.
Well, if the KDE/lightdm combination causes problems then I hope those running, or attempting to run, that combination will BZ it. -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.
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