Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

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On 05/23/18 06:45, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 05/22/2018 03:38 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 05/23/18 04:24, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/TOHHLOSATWWU3QQEKXKBYQP4NSGMNJ4L/#4YJSDVXBFH4X3E3ZLI2CM5EXG6D2PJ2I
>>> 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!
>> FWIW, I have an F28/xfce system installed in a VM.  It uses lightdm
>>
>> root       776     1  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lightdm
>> root       876   776  0 05:54 tty1     00:00:10 /usr/libexec/Xorg -core -noreset :0
>> -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt1 -novtswitch -background none
>> root      1058   776  0 05:54 ?        00:00:00 lightdm --session-child 12 19
>>
>> The only "pam" packages installed on the system are...
>>
>> gnome-keyring-pam-3.28.2-1.fc28.x86_64
>> pam-1.3.0-10.fc28.x86_64
>> systemd-pam-238-8.git0e0aa59.fc28.x86_64
>> pam_krb5-2.4.13-9.fc28.x86_64
>> fprintd-pam-0.8.0-2.fc28.x86_64
>>
>> So, it seems to me, something else you've installed on your system pulled in
>> pam-kwallet and it isn't lightdm.
>>
>> Maybe try removing it to see what else it tries to remove?
> I did install KDE at one time, so it's probably from that. Regardless,
> I just commented it out of the pam config. I could remove it, I suppose.
> I don't expect to use KDE often, if at all.

Well, if the KDE/lightdm combination causes problems then I hope those running, or
attempting to run, that combination will BZ it.

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