saslauthd, PAM & EXIM - F16
by Jeffrey Ross
I just upgraded my system to F16 and SMTP authentication is no longer
working.
What I have been able to figure out so far is EXIM is passing the
authentication request to saslauthd but saslauthd appears to simply sit on
the request, running a strace -f -p xxxx on the saslauthd process I can
see my username and password sitting there but that's it, its just sitting
there.
output from strace:
fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
len=1}{sa_family=AF_FILE, NULL}, [2]) = 7
fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=1}) = 0
) = 0
accept(5, read(7, "\0\4", 2) = 2
read(7, "username", 4) = 4
read(7, "\0\6", 2) = 2
read(7, "passwd", 6) = 6
read(7, "\0\4", 2) = 2
read(7, "smtp", 4) = 4
read(7, "\0\0", 2) = 2
read(7,
I think this means that exim is passing the query to saslauthd correctly
but saslauthd for whatever reason isn't contacting PAM properly.
sysconfig/saslauthd:
SOCKETDIR=/var/run/saslauthd
MECH=pam
FLAGS=
/etc/pam.d/exim:
#%PAM-1.0
auth include password-auth
account include password-auth
selinux is disabled
I know I'm missing something pretty simple but not sure where to look,
suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff
12 years, 5 months
Gimp partially froze-up, in F-14.. and, The OS needs be made more efficient...
by Linda McLeod
Gimp partially froze-up, in F-14, on largest solid brush, then brush
wouldn't cover the line made by the brush's perimeter, as if that area
was now locked, but the brush would cover anywhere else on the pix, and
as it did painting it ran a solid horizontal blanking line across the
screen from left to right, but only in the area of colour I needed
painted.. like it was a new primary feature, "brush combined with clone
abilities"..?
Has anyone had this happen in F-14, F-15, or F-16..? Is this a Gimp
fault, or a Fedora fault.. or is Gimp evolving itself..?
It seems to be a glitch that maybe opened-up the possibility of a new
feature..? Maybe features can be married so many things happen on one
click or stroke..?
I do pix edits as a pastime hobby.. After editing, I must click to
resize, resize, click "ok", click save, click "yes I want to save it"..
five operations that two could do.. It makes the computer inefficient,
when the "computer" is supposedly the epitome of evolution and
efficiency.. Seems "laziness", and "slowness", and thankless motivation,
and general misdirection, is all depleting the efficiency progress of
the evolution of the computer.. is one of the computer's era's
"diseases"..
(for those whom that statement went way over your head.. please don't be
"pissing in my face" just because you can't handle thought in those
areas.. It's obviously not for you!.. If thinking makes your head hurt
or, then Pulease! just don't read my posts)...
Would be nice if I could resize the pix, then click "save", all done in
two clicks..
--
http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class
12 years, 5 months
Printer problem Samsung CLX-3170
by Mickey
Fedora 16
Printer has been working fine in Fedora 14, 15.
F16 doesn't like it.
I'am not getting any Selinux errors.
Printer state:
Idle - /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed
/var/log/messages
Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne kernel: [ 1582.570767] rastertosamsung[13644]
general protection ip:4383b700 sp:bf8e4d78 error:0 in
libc-2.14.90.so[43701000+1a5000]
Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2011-11-21-16:51:48-13644'
creation detected
Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrt[13649]: saved core dump of pid 13644
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc) to
/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-11-21-16:51:48-13644 (1626112 bytes)
Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrtd: Executable
'/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc' doesn't belong to any package
Nov 21 16:51:48 BigOne abrtd: Corrupted or bad dump
/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-11-21-16:51:48-13644 (res:2), deleting
12 years, 5 months
Quasi-freezes in F16
by Beartooth
At odd intervals (measured in quarter-hours, I think), F16 with
either Gnome or xfce will act up as follows.
The cursor remains visible, and moves according to the mouse; and
the eyes in panels follow it. But clicking, anywhere, right or left, does
nothing. Sometimes, if the focus is at the prompt on a terminal, that
will take input. Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will bring a fresh login screen;
sometimes not. Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-Del will reboot; sometimes not, and
only the reset button (if any) has an effect.
Incidentally, the machine I still have F16 on gets an error
message on boot saying it has to use backup mode, or whatever it's
called, and can't do full Gnome 3.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
12 years, 5 months
Occasional panel freeze under Fedora-16
by Timothy Murphy
I wonder if anyone else has suffered from this?
I'm running Fedora-16/KDE on my laptop.
Occasionally - two or three times a day -
I cannot get any response from my panel,
eg clicking on the f-icon has no effect.
If I am currently on a desktop, this isn't affected;
I can list directories, edit a file, etc.
I've used "top" to see what is going on,
but I didn't see anything unusual there.
The situation rights itself after about 30 seconds.
I'm not sure if the problem is related to firefox.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
12 years, 5 months
F16: GDM user list, only show GDM logins
by Rich Boyce
Hello list,
I'm rolling out F16 in a enterprise (well, academic) environment, and I
need to get the GDM user list to only show users that have logged in via
GDM. At the moment it also shows users that have logged in via SSH.
I know that the new GDM uses systemd-logind to list its known users, but
I haven't been able to find out how to configure either GDM or
systemd-logind to list just GDM users (or just users assigned to a
'seat', as SSH users apparently are not).
Is there a configuration option for this? I'm not keen to move to kdm.
Thanks a lot,
Rich
12 years, 5 months
can Thunderbird be configured to pick Fedora system mail?
by Claude Jones
Subject says it all. I have messages coming to my user logon but I can't
figure out a way to get Thunderbird to retrieve them. I could do it with
KMail, but that's broken for me at the moment.
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
12 years, 5 months
Can't increase screen resolution (F16, KDE)
by John Aldrich
I have Fedora 16 with a 19" flat-panel screen capable of 1280x1024,
however, Fedora / KDE seems to not realize my monitor is capable of this
resolution, and only offers a max resolution of 1024x768, which is
freaking HUGE on my monitor! How do I fix this??? I *know* my monitor is
capable of 1280x1024 because that's the resolution I had when I was
running Fedora 15.
I have an on-board Geforce video card and have already upgraded to the
nVidia drivers and disabled Noveau, hoping that would fix it, but it has
not.
I'm becoming more and more disenchanted with Fedora/KDE and am seriously
thinking of wiping the whole freakin' thing and going to XUbuntu or
something a bit more user-friendly! Sheesh! I've been using Fedora since
before there WAS a Fedora and maybe it's just KDE, but this has to be
the toughest upgrade I've done in a LOOOONG time!
C'mon, folks... help a guy out here, please!
12 years, 5 months