Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

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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


I think it's too early to assign blame.  There clearly *is* some sort of 
problem between lightdm/pam-kwallet/polkit, but where exactly and how to 
address it has yet to be determined.

Formal bug tracking the issue is here, if you want to follow along:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1581495

-- Rex
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