slim (simple login manager)

[cromworshipper-fedorastuff at yahoo.com]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:49:59AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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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
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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

$ sudo ausearch -m avc -ts recent
<no matches>

$ dmesg | grep -i avc
[   79.382138] dbus[1072]: avc:  netlink poll: error 4

Going back a few days I can see that ausearch reports a lot of AVC messages regarding wine-preloader and skype, but I can't imagine they're relevant here.

John