I'm facing the same problem, but the solution doesn't seem to be working for me. I had a *.pacnew only for login in /etc/pam.d, which I renamed. But still the applet refuses to work for me. :( Any other ideas? On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 7:12 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Martin Zecher <mzecher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > You're a genius. Not the Mac one, of course. > > heh, thanks :-) > > > Where did you get that > > info? I didn't notice any change in pam at all... > > why from my gigantic, bulbous brain of course! where else?! > > nah i just remembered looking over that update awhile back. the > symptoms you described sounded like a PAM problem (running but > invisible until restarted from within the session), like sessions were > not being setup properly (in particular, environ vars like dbus socket > address, etc). > > also the PAM entries for systemd were only added sometime in the last > year. PAM is one of those things you don't really [need to] think > about :-) so it's easy to skip over. > > > By the way, I > > replaced /etc/pam.d/kde, kde-np, login and passwd with the > > corresponding .pacnew ones and that fixed the problem. > > yeah that sounds about right ... nice, i'm glad it's all working for you > now. > > > Arch's community is the best. > > i concur, good sir. > > -- > > C Anthony >
