| Summary: | lightdm fail to start with gtk3 greeter | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | katnatek <j.alberto.vc> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | marja11 |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | lightdm-gtk-greeter-2.0.2-1.mga6.src.rpm | CVE: | |
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Description
katnatek
2017-03-15 23:27:04 CET
Assigning to the registered lightdm maintainer. CC:
(none) =>
marja11 Lightdm logs doesn't help much. Please attach greeter log also: /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log And /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log too. It might have more interesting info. /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /var/log/lightdm/.Xauthority: Permission denied /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log X.Org X Server 1.19.2 Release Date: 2017-03-02 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: ecosse 4.4.50-server-1.mga5 Current Operating System: Linux nacaal 4.9.14-server-1.mga6 #1 SMP Mon Mar 13 11:17:05 UTC 2017 i686 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.14-server-1.mga6 root=UUID=0a4f3636-66dd-4ce1-82af-0e46c48eee84 ro splash quiet noiswmd resume=UUID=fdaf220e-c855-4141-a4e3-1035040ef1a6 Build Date: 04 March 2017 10:18:58AM Build ID: x11-server 1.19.2-1.mga6 Current version of pixman: 0.34.0 Before reporting problems, check http://bugs.mageia.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Mar 15 15:51:44 2017 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" resize called 1024 768 (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. (In reply to katnatek from comment #4) > /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log > > Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority > /var/log/lightdm/.Xauthority: Permission denied drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 mar 15 15:51 lightdm/ (In reply to katnatek from comment #4) > /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log > > Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority > /var/log/lightdm/.Xauthority: Permission denied > It should not use Xauthority from /var/log/lightdm, but from /var/lib/lightdm. What's the out of 'getent passwd lightdm'? (In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #6) > (In reply to katnatek from comment #4) > > /var/log/lightdm/seat0-greeter.log > > > > Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority > > /var/log/lightdm/.Xauthority: Permission denied > > > > It should not use Xauthority from /var/log/lightdm, but from > /var/lib/lightdm. > This can happen if Mageia was installed first time in mga3 cycle and updated mga3 -> mga4 -> mga5 -> mga6 as /var/log/lightdm was used as lightdm user's home directory at mga3 time and earlier. Funny thing is I've never hit this problem even my installation is quite old. (In reply to Jani Välimaa from comment #7) > This can happen if Mageia was installed first time in mga3 cycle and updated > mga3 -> mga4 -> mga5 -> mga6 as /var/log/lightdm was used as lightdm user's > home directory at mga3 time and earlier. > > Funny thing is I've never hit this problem even my installation is quite old. getent passwd lightdm lightdm:x:489:485:system user for lightdm:/var/log/lightdm:/sbin/nologin You may be point to right gulty my system has passed that cycle ;) Should be fixed with lightdm-1.18.3-2.mga6. Closing as FIXED. Status:
NEW =>
RESOLVED |