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2018-07-27 13:57 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>: |
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> On Friday, 27 July 2018 11:44:08 BST gevisz wrote: |
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>> 2018-07-27 12:44 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>: |
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>> > PAM is used to separate applications from the underlying |
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>> > authentication mechanisms. It checks OS user/account/passwd/session |
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>> > authentications when required by applications. This is the backbone |
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>> > of managing Linux authentications today, although some applications |
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>> > retain their own application level authentication mechanism (e.g. SSH). |
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>> So, do you think that global -pam use flag can cause Firefox |
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>> and QupZilla to crash on loging web-pages? |
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> You can run them with strace to see if they are trying to access any pam |
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> modules, but I would think it unlikely. |
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Thank you for the tip. I will try to use strace after reading about it. |
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However, currently I already deleted grobal -pam use flag and |
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started to update world with the new settings. Some new packages |
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are currently installing and some other are recompiling. |
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> I bet this is something to do with the graphics drivers. Later versions of |
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> browsers are heavy on hardware acceleration and can stress some graphics |
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> drivers causing crashes like this. Geolocation and other pop ups use the GPU |
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> to create rendering effects and this could be the cause of the crash. |
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I doubt this because the same works on old Gentoo intallation on |
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the same computer. But I can not be sure, of course. :) |
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