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From: George Roberts <georoberts@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:06:32
Message-Id: 42E7BDCE.8050302@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et by Chris Fairles
1 Chris this may help with the problem:
2 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350736-highlight-gdm+pam.html
3
4 Chris Fairles wrote:
5
6 > Oddly enough, if I run et like this
7 >
8 > et >> et.log 2>&1
9 >
10 > it runs fine and gdm does not restart itself.
11 >
12 > heres a snip from the log at least where I *think* it was failing
13 > before... it tries to run a tty console which pam does not like, why?
14 >
15 > --- Common Initialization Complete ---
16 > Opening IP socket: localhost:27960
17 > Hostname: dsotm
18 > IP: 127.0.0.1
19 > Started tty console (use +set ttycon 0 to disable)
20 >
21 > thnx,
22 > chris
23 >
24 >
25 > Chris Fairles wrote:
26 >
27 >> Ran a emerge -NDuva world, updated a bunch of gnome stuff.
28 >> gnome-base/gnome-2.10-r1 and deps and
29 >> gnome-base/gdm-2.6.0.9-r2
30 >>
31 >> Launching et (enemey territory) gives (in /var/log/messages)
32 >> Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM unable to
33 >> dlopen(/lib/security/pam_console.so)
34 >> Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM [dlerror:
35 >> /lib/security/pam_console.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
36 >> file or directory]
37 >> Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM adding faulty module:
38 >> /lib/security/pam_console.so
39 >> Jul 26 22:58:15 dsotm gdm(pam_unix)[23200]: session opened for user
40 >> chris by (uid=0)
41 >> Jul 26 22:58:23 dsotm su(pam_unix)[23301]: session opened for user
42 >> root by (uid=1000)
43 >> Jul 26 23:00:35 dsotm su(pam_unix)[23301]: session closed for user root
44 >> Jul 26 23:00:39 dsotm gdm[23200]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
45 >> error - Restarting :0
46 >> Jul 26 23:00:39 dsotm gdm(pam_unix)[23200]: session closed for user
47 >> chris
48 >>
49 >> gdm restarts .... no game
50 >>
51 >> I've tried commenting out all of
52 >> dsotm ~ # grep console /etc/pam.d/*
53 >> /etc/pam.d/gdm:session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
54 >> /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin:session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
55 >> /etc/pam.d/xdm:session optional pam_console.so
56 >> /etc/pam.d/xserver:# Next line you need console ownership to be able
57 >> to start X
58 >> /etc/pam.d/xserver:#auth required pam_console.so
59 >>
60 >> restarting gdm, even rebooting, same error as above.
61 >>
62 >> tried setting USE="pam_console" emerge -Nva pam ... adding the login
63 >> pam_console, uncommenting all of the above lines, i just get the
64 >> Jul 26 22:41:05 dsotm gdm[8000]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
65 >> error - Restarting :0
66 >>
67 >>
68 >> i'm almost ready to USE="-pam" emerge -e world ...
69 >>
70 >> chris
71 >
72 >
73 >
74
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Re: [gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et Chris Fairles <cafairle@×××××××××××××××××.ca>