On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:49:59AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/31/2011 06:17 PM, John Schmitt wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:13:42AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 08/30/2011 07:01 PM, John Schmitt wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh > >>> wrote: > >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > >>>> > >>>> On 08/28/2011 09:23 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > >>>>> On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM, > >>>>> cromworshipper-fedorastuff@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>>>> slim started up fine when this machine was running Fedora > >>>>>> 14. I installed it from for Fedora 15: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> slim-1.3.2-8.fc15.x86_64 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> It doesn't start any more. I get this in > >>>>>> /var/log/slim.log: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> slim: unexpected signal 15 sh: /usr/bin/xauth: > >>>>>> Permission denied > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Check the permission of /usr/bin/xauth. They will be > >>>>> probably ok, so next move will be blaming selinux. > >>>>> > >>>> Looks to me like selinux. I would check your labeling on > >>>> xaut ahd maybe on slim. > >>> > >>> > >>> $ ps -eZ | grep -i slim > >>> > >>> yields nothing because slim is not running. > >>> > >>> John > >> Well can you logout of the X session and log in via a termanal or > >> sshd to see what it is running as. > > > > I guess I don't understand. The start up process has stopped, > > systemd says something about 'waiting for plymouth graphical boot > > screen' to end and then stops. X is not running at this point. I > > can press ALT+CTRL+F2 to open another terminal session and log in > > to look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/slim.log, and > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > > > I don't know if this helps, but I tried it again a few minutes ago > > and saw this in /var/log/messages: > > > > Aug 31 13:17:24 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time > > over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy ntpd[1047]: > > 0.0.0.0 c61c 0c clock_step +0.823605 s Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy > > ntpd[1047]: 0.0.0.0 c614 04 freq_mode Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy > > systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. > > Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time > > over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: > > prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 > > 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over, > > scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: > > prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 > > 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service start request repeated > > too quickly, refusing to start. > > > > > > > > Thanks for helping me with this, Daniel. > > > > > > John > > > Ok get me the output of > > ausearch -m avc -ts recent or if audit is not runnind > > dmesg | grep avc $ sudo ausearch -m avc -ts recent <no matches> $ dmesg | grep -i avc [ 79.382138] dbus[1072]: avc: netlink poll: error 4 Going back a few days I can see that ausearch reports a lot of AVC messages regarding wine-preloader and skype, but I can't imagine they're relevant here. John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines