Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-06-24 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:22:13 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: [] > And just a warning: The lightdm display manager has issues with > pam_kwallet and pam_kwallet5 if they're installed. If you decide to use > lightdm, edit the /etc/pam.d/lightdm file and comment out any lines that > reference

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-06-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/22/2018 01:57 PM, Beartooth wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2018 05:48:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> In actuality you just need one command. >> >> systemctl -f enable sddm   (or whatever new dm you want) >> >> -f = force   which means "When used with enable, overwrite any existing >> conflicting

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-06-22 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 21 May 2018 05:48:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > In actuality you just need one command. > > systemctl -f enable sddm   (or whatever new dm you want) > > -f = force   which means "When used with enable, overwrite any existing > conflicting symlinks." > > and no need to use ".service"

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-31 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 22 May 2018 17:35:04 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [] > Never mind. I have actually brought it up before now (can't be bothered > to track down the post though it's probably on the KDE list) but no-one > else reacted so it doesn't appear to be common. Fwiw, the pan

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-28 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/28/2018 11:34 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2018-05-22 13:56 GMT-03:00 Rick Stevens : >> >> 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

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-28 Thread Martín Marqués
2018-05-22 13:56 GMT-03:00 Rick Stevens : > > 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 enab

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-23 Thread Rex Dieter
francis.montag...@inria.fr 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 acces

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Tue, 22 May 2018 16:07:22 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/22/2018 03:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> 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.montag...@inria.fr wrote:

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 03:48 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote:

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
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.montag...@inria.fr wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2018 09:56:25 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > And I just had lightdm screw up royally.

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
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.montag...@inria.fr 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 er

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/23/18 04:24, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr 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

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 01:24 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr 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

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/22/2018 10:32 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr 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 wit

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
. Thought of creating a start up process to automatically do this on login. On 22 May 2018 at 19:32, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: From: francis.montag...@inria.fr To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Could LightDM be b

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Francis . Montagnac
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

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rick Stevens
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 th

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 23:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/22/18 22:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 06:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I was considering asking on the KDE list if there is anyway to tell the > > > > system to end a

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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, > > eit

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/22/18 22:51, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 06:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> I was considering asking on the KDE list if there is anyway to tell the >>> system to end all users processes after logout. >> Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: >> >> K

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 22 May 2018, Tom Horsley sent: > Of course I'll still need my reboot script to umount -l nfs > filesystems to keep systemd from spending 5 hours timing out trying > to talk to systems that have gone down :-). That's why I went with autofs, rather than fstab entries. They're

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/22/18 19:12, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 15:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/21/18 23:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 10:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: There are programs that just don't terminate every time when I log out. Variou

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 06:28 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > I was considering asking on the KDE list if there is anyway to tell the > > system to end all users processes after logout. > > Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: > > KillUserProcesses=yes I already have that set, a

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 May 2018 20:42:30 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > Well, like any good tech, I just tried it and it did kill all of those.  No > traces of > the logged-out user remain. Cool. I'll have to configure my system with that. Of course I'll still need my reboot script to umount -l nfs filesystems

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/22/18 20:26, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2018 06:28:21 -0500 > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: >> >> KillUserProcesses=yes > Does that get all the "user mode daemon" stuff that runs under the > "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user" process? Well, like any good tec

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 22 May 2018 06:28:21 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: > > KillUserProcesses=yes Does that get all the "user mode daemon" stuff that runs under the "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user" process? Those hanging around forever always seemed to make a reboot take foreve

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/22/18 19:28, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > >> I was considering asking on the KDE list if there is anyway to tell the >> system to end all users processes after logout. > Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: > > KillUserProcesses=yes > Thanks -- Conjecture is just a conclusion

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Ed Greshko wrote: > I was considering asking on the KDE list if there is anyway to tell the > system to end all users processes after logout. Set in /etc/systemd/logind.conf: KillUserProcesses=yes -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapr

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 15:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/21/18 23:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 10:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > > There are > > > programs that just don't terminate every time when I log out. Various > > > system/desktop daemons, sometimes web b

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 07:22 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > There are programs that just don't terminate every time when I log > > > out. Various system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > Possibly unrelated, but I sometimes - not always - find that after

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 22 May 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > FWIW, if you investigate a little I think you'd find that for every > user that logs-in for a GUI session there will be about 9+ processes > that are left running and remain running. It seems these processes > are then reused on subsequent log

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/21/18 23:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 10:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: >> There are >> programs that just don't terminate every time when I log out. Various >> system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers. > Possibly unrelated, but I sometimes - not always - find

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-21 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> There are programs that just don't terminate every time when I log >> out. Various system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers. Patrick O'Callaghan: > Possibly unrelated, but I sometimes - not always - find that after > updating (using dnf with the tracer plugin) I'm advised to restart

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 16:09 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 10:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > There are > > programs that just don't terminate every time when I log out. Various > > system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers. > > Possibly unrelated, but I sometim

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-05-21 at 10:06 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > There are > programs that just don't terminate every time when I log out. Various > system/desktop daemons, sometimes web browsers. Possibly unrelated, but I sometimes - not always - find that after updating (using dnf with the tracer plug

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 20 May 2018, Beartooth sent: > > Under F27, they kept filling up with some sort of cruft, to the > point of refusing dnf upgrade; but when I found any of the cruft, it > was in places where I dared not lay about me with a cyber-battleaxe. > I jumped to F28 the day of r

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/21/18 04:02, Tom Horsley wrote: > Pretty simple really. Just do something like: > > systemctl disable gdm.service > systemctl enable kdm.service In actuality you just need one command. systemctl -f enable sddm   (or whatever new dm you want) -f = force   which means "When used with enable

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 May 2018 22:33:59 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > IIRC KDM is deprecated, so SDDM (now the default for KDE/Plasma) would > probably be better. No doubt so they could prevent me from changing any X server options :-). That's why I switched to kdm in the first place: https://bugzilla

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-05-20 at 16:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:46:22 -0700 > stan wrote: > > > switch desktop managers. > > I ignored it since it didn't apply to me. > > Pretty simple really. Just do something like: > > systemctl disable gdm.service > systemctl enable kdm.service

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:46:22 -0700 stan wrote: > switch desktop managers. > I ignored it since it didn't apply to me. Pretty simple really. Just do something like: systemctl disable gdm.service systemctl enable kdm.service If you don't have the one you want installed, you can do something like:

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: Forgot this: > Finally, #1 has two F28 kernels -- which do no better than on > #2 nor #3 -- and a rescue kernel from F26. Sic. Twenty-six, not 27 > nor 28. But that rescue kernel does support almost my whole GUI (I > miss Pan badly.), and

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread stan
On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: > I'd like to try replacing LDM with something else; how do I > do that?? (I like Mate well, and would prefer not to swap it out,too) I use openbox (it's in the Fedora repositories) with lxde. I usually use startx from multiuser, but ope

Re: Could LightDM be bad?? (LONG)

2018-05-20 Thread Ranjan Maitra
I use SLiM. I read somewhere that there is no further development and it will stop working eventually but happily Fedora still packages it so as long as that holds, I guess I am fine. https://github.com/iwamatsu/slim Ranjan On Sun, 20 May 2018 13:58:36 -0400 Beartooth wrote: > > I kee