slim (simple login manager)

[John Schmitt]

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