Further questions from "Trying to use jhalfs to build BLFS in chroot." Background :
I built a base system using my own LFS scripts (package versions and scripts known to work ok on another machine), but with changes to not make my normal systems mounted in fstab. I then built a few things needed before I could use jhalfs to build blfs (wget, docbook, subversion). I also removed my normal users, and added a jhalfs user with full sudo privileges (unsafe), and a normal user with minimal privileges so that from time to time I could try running the results. System booted, so I set about starting to find my way around jhalfs for build testing (going back to chroot). Minimal console progs worked (e.g. lynx). Eventually built Xorg and fluxbox. My jhalfs user can 'startx' (with fluxbox), but I don't want to use that user when I do boot the system for testing. I added a normal user, with things similar to what I added for the jhalfs user (but with a slightly more complex .xinitrc to allow me to specify which windowmanager to use). The normal user can login ok, the syslog shows the seat details, loginctl user-status looks ok. But when that user tries to startx the screen blanks, then X ends. Looking at .local/share//xorg/Xorg.0.log everything looks ok and I don't see any obvious differences between the working log from the jhalfs user and the non-working log from the normal user. Does any of this ring any bells, please ? I don't see elogind reporting any errors errors, the output in syslog seems fine, so I'm wondering if PAM might be involved. I can see that PAM's elogind-user has a LOT more in the jhalfs build than in my own build, but my gut feelign is that if the user can login on a tty then PAM is not the problem ? I'm wondering about adding strace to the build, but my recollections from just over a year ago suggest that might not give any meaningful pointers to the problem. ĸen -- To say that it (his hair) was black and bound up in a ponytail is to miss the opportunity of using the term 'elephantine'. It was hair with personality. -- The Thief Of Time (about the monk, Sato). -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
