Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

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On 05/22/2018 09:33 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 23:00 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>> So, those processes may potentially keep copies of libraries that have been updated
>>>> and (guessing) clashes happen with new processes with new libraries.
>>> Yes, I'm aware of that. However 'tracer' supposed to detect this,
>>> either when called from the Shell or via the dnf plug-in. That's why
>>> it's telling me to restart the session.
>>
>> I seriously doubt that tracer will be able to detect that some processes may survive
>> a log-outt/log-in event.
> 
> Naturally not, but it should (and AFAIK does) detect libraries being
> updated and recommend that processes using them be restarted.
> 
>> Do you run tracer again after logging in again?
> 
> I sometimes run it from a root console while the user session is logged
> out, and make sure nothing out of date is still hanging around. This
> doesn't appear to correlate with the problem, but I haven't been
> systematic enough about it to be sure.
> 
>>>> Therefore, I don't logout/login after updates.  If anything, I reboot.  In my case a
>>>> reboot takes about 12 seconds so I'm  not bothered by it.
>>> It's fast here too, but I usually have a VM running that I may not want
>>> to forcibly reboot.
>>>
>> There is always something, isn't there?
> 
> Yes, Murphy had something to say about that ...

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.

I wiped my xfce settings, reinstalled lightdm, xfce4-polkit and anything
else I could think of to no avail. I finally just punted, disabled
lightdm and enabled lxdm and everything started working again.

Very, VERY frustrating. Grrrrr!
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