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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:41:51
Message-Id: 1583465.mOfepUo9rJ@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE startup error by Raffaele Belardi
1 On Monday 20 Mar 2017 07:18:17 Raffaele Belardi wrote:
2 > Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 09:49:14 Mick wrote:
4 > >> I don't have a fix for you, but from the errors it seems pam is not
5 > >> happy. Display Managers and various services install pam modules in
6 > >> /etc/pam.d/ to manage user authentication. It seems something is
7 > >> amiss there, or some kind of conflict between gnome-keyring and LXDE.
8 > >
9 > > Yes, I see that. I also see a lot of stuff that may be causing it. I
10 > > deleted .cache/lxsessions/LXDE/run.log, ran startx and immediately
11 > > logged out, and this is what I found (sorry, it's 110 lines):
12 > >
13 > > $ cat run.log
14 >
15 > ....
16 >
17 > > ------------------------------------
18 > >
19 > > So it looks as though something hasn't been installed right. I'm running
20 > > an emerge -e world at the moment to see if I can pick something up from
21 > > it.
22
23 > I don't see anything strange in your log; LXDE should start even without
24 > notification-deamon installed.
25 > Is there anything strange in /var/log/X.org.0.log?
26 > "ran startx and immediately logged out": do you use a login manager?
27
28 Even after all my digging and rebuilding, I was still getting an error on
29 startup - not the one I was asking about, but I don't remember just what it
30 was now.
31
32 In the end I ditched LXDE and went for Fluxbox.
33
34 --
35 Regards
36 Peter