On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, Francis.Montagnac(a)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.o...
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.
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