slim (simple login manager)

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 08/31/2011 06:17 PM, John Schmitt wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:13:42AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>> On 08/30/2011 07:01 PM, John Schmitt wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:52:54AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On 08/28/2011 09:23 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>>>> On 08/28/2011 03:21 AM,
>>>>> cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com wrote:
>>>>>> slim started up fine when this machine was running Fedora
>>>>>> 14. I installed it from for Fedora 15:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> slim-1.3.2-8.fc15.x86_64
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It doesn't start any more.  I get this in
>>>>>> /var/log/slim.log:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> slim: unexpected signal 15 sh: /usr/bin/xauth:
>>>>>> Permission denied
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Check the permission of /usr/bin/xauth. They will be
>>>>> probably ok, so next move will be blaming selinux.
>>>>> 
>>>> Looks to me like selinux.  I would check your labeling on
>>>> xaut ahd maybe on slim.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> $ ps -eZ | grep -i slim
>>> 
>>> yields nothing because slim is not running.
>>> 
>>> John
>> Well can you logout of the X session and log in via a termanal or
>> sshd to see what it is running as.
> 
> I guess I don't understand.  The start up process has stopped,
> systemd says something about 'waiting for plymouth graphical boot
> screen' to end and then stops.  X is not running at this point.  I
> can press ALT+CTRL+F2 to open another terminal session and log in
> to look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/slim.log, and
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> 
> I don't know if this helps, but I tried it again a few minutes ago
> and saw this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug 31 13:17:24 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time
> over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy ntpd[1047]:
> 0.0.0.0 c61c 0c clock_step +0.823605 s Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy
> ntpd[1047]: 0.0.0.0 c614 04 freq_mode Aug 31 13:17:25 badboy
> systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. 
> Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time
> over, scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]:
> prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Aug 31
> 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service holdoff time over,
> scheduling restart. Aug 31 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]:
> prefdm.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Aug 31
> 13:17:26 badboy systemd[1]: prefdm.service start request repeated
> too quickly, refusing to start.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for helping me with this, Daniel.
> 
> 
> John


Ok get me the output of

ausearch -m avc -ts recent or if audit is not runnind

dmesg | grep avc

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