ok, but how to start X from the CLI though?


On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 11:30 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/07/18 12:29, Frédéric wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded F27 yesterday night and I cannot start sddm this morning. I
> just get a black screen with the mouse.
> Here is the output of systemctl status sddm:
> ● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-07-07 06:21:17 CEST; 6min ago
>      Docs: man:sddm(1)
>            man:sddm.conf(5)
>  Main PID: 1717 (sddm)
>     Tasks: 4 (limit: 8601)
>    CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
>            ├─1717 /usr/bin/sddm
>            └─1744 /usr/libexec/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth
> /var/run/sddm/{692f6d02-ea99-4eab-806c-83acc1ae9f1d} -background none
> -noreset -displayfd 19 vt1
>
> juil. 07 06:21:17 gamma systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
> juil. 07 06:21:19 gamma sddm-helper[2148]: PAM unable to
> dlopen(/usr/lib64/security/pam_elogind.so):
> /usr/lib64/security/pam_elogind.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory
> juil. 07 06:21:19 gamma sddm-helper[2148]: PAM adding faulty module:
> /usr/lib64/security/pam_elogind.so
> juil. 07 06:21:19 gamma sddm-helper[2148]:
> pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by
> (uid=0)
> juil. 07 06:21:21 gamma sddm[1717]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 6
>
> Kind regards,

in /etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter check to see if you have the line....

session               optional pam_elogind.so

if so, comment it out.  As far as I know pam_elogind.so is not distributed with Fedora.

I believe an alternative to commenting it out is to change the line to be.

-session                optional pam_elogind.so


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