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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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@lists.fedoraproject.org/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.
Bug reported by me:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1581495
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