On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:55:56AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >Just anecdotal comments - I have been ensuring that all my > >currently-maintained systems are updated to firefox-45. On my first > >test box, where I had so much fun with kde4, startkde no longer > >works. I can (happily) live with that. But on an older system on > >the same box, using kf5, startkde worked and let me in - so I left it > >building, and a kf5 (or plasma) screen lock came up - that would NOT > >let me login, I had to reboot. > > I did have that too. Did you include PAM and rebuild shadow? I did and > found that I needed the files /etc/pam.d/kde and /etc/pam.d/kde-np in > kde-workspace. After a reboot, the screen lock worked OK. > Interesting. I'm not sure if I built PAM on that system, but I am fairly sure that I have used startkde in the past, left it, and been able to get in - in fact, I do not recall the screen locker, I was expecting to see xscreensaver.
> >Now, on my old machine which is now mostly reserved for processing > >photos, the most-recent build (June last year - yes, I know, I > >should have replaced that by now) which has been happily letting me > >login via sddm for all these months suddenly decided that neither > >ken's nor lfs's passwords were correct. So root changed ken's > >password, but that made not the slightlest difference. And a quick > >check shows that the system is not full (anyway, /tmp is a tmpfs). > > > >So, just when I was almsot getting used to graphical logins, I think > >I might be heading back to 'startx'. Ain't life grand ? > > Personally I like startx because we do so much changing that I don't want to > be limited during boot. I only use a DM for testing. > > -- Bruce > Sometimes, I like the eye-candy of a login screen :) ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
