F14 LXDE spin lxdm-greeter does not go anywhere....

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi Christoph,

Thanks again!

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:11:26 -0500 Christoph Wickert
<cwickert at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 17:16 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > Thanks very much!
> 
> Hi Ranjan,
> 
> you are welcome! 
> 
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:05:31 -0500 Christoph Wickert
> > <cwickert at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > So you can login on the console with the same username and password?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, I can. But I have found a strange workaround and that is if I
> > switch to the console and back: i.e. doing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and Ctrl-Alt-F1
> > in quick succession.
> 
> Strange. This looks like a problem with your hardware and the X server,
> seems something goes wrong when LXDM tries to switch the VTs.
> 
> Please edit /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf and change the line
>         arg=/usr/bin/X -nr vt1
> to
>         # arg=/usr/bin/X -nr vt1
> 
> The X-Server should then start on vt7 as it used to be in pre-plymouth
> times. Does this work any better?

For a while, I thought it was worse, because my trick no longer worked.
However replacing F7 with F1 does do the difference.

> 
> > I added enforcing=0 at the very end of that line and no change. I
> > waited for at least a couple of minutes and then tried my trick above.
> > That worked.
> 
> Ok, good to know. I really think it's an X problem.

I agree. but it is strange that no one else is seeing it yet....

> 
> > I got some SELinux alerts as before:
> > SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/lxdm-binary "unlink" access
> > on .Xauthority
> 
> This is a known problem, but it doesn't prevent you from logging in. See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635897
> 
> > Also, 
> > SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/setfiles access to a
> > leaked /usr/local/maitra/.xsession-errors file descriptor:
> > 
> > In both cases, the notification does say:
> > [SELinux is in permissive mode. This access was not denied.]
> > 
> > Note that I have always had my home directory in /usr/local.
> 
> Uhh, please don't do that. If will break a *lot* of SELinux rules. Your
> home should be /home/maitra.

But Fedora had fixed this problem long ago. It used to be the case that
contexts needed to be defined/restored manually. In any case, that does
not seem to be a problem.

> 
> Regards,
> Christoph

Thanks again!

Ranjan