thank you very much for that tip ! I'll report back. On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 5:03 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 2020-01-10 07:52, linux guy wrote: > > Hello wonderful Fedora people. ;) > > > > I cloned an operating system using rsync using the following, basically: > > > > sudo rsync -aHxv --numeric-ids --progress root@brix:/* /mnt/drive > --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/boot > > > > It worked fantastically well. I'll post the nity gritty details in > another thread once I confirm a few things. > > > > Everything works perfectly, except that I can't log into a session with > kdm or gdm because of an authentication error. I can log into a console > session without any issues. > > > > I have never been able to log into a session using gdm. The session > displays the user names, it allows me to input a password and then the > screen flashes and it returns me to the gdm screen. > > > > I am able to log into a kdm session. When I first do I received several > SELinux errors and I am asked for the root password anytime I tried to do > anything. Other than that everything worked well. > > > > The message is "Authentification is required to access the PC/SC daemon" > > > > One of the SELinux erros was something about unix_chkpwd map > /etc/ld.so.cache and it gave me an option to fix it. I ran that command > and the SELinux errors seemed to have stopped. > > > > Furthermore when I run passwd <username> and try to reset a password, I > get: Authentication Token Manipulation error. > > > > What is going wrong and how do I fix it ? > > Based on what you've said, and what you've done it would be advisable to > run > > "fixfiles onboot" from the command line as root and reboot to restore all > the selinux contexts. > > > -- > The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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