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From: Chris Fairles <cafairle@×××××××××××××××××.ca>
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 13:04:21
Message-Id: 42E783EC.7020407@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et by Chris Fairles
1 Oddly enough, if I run et like this
2
3 et >> et.log 2>&1
4
5 it runs fine and gdm does not restart itself.
6
7 heres a snip from the log at least where I *think* it was failing
8 before... it tries to run a tty console which pam does not like, why?
9
10 --- Common Initialization Complete ---
11 Opening IP socket: localhost:27960
12 Hostname: dsotm
13 IP: 127.0.0.1
14 Started tty console (use +set ttycon 0 to disable)
15
16 thnx,
17 chris
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19
20 Chris Fairles wrote:
21
22 > Ran a emerge -NDuva world, updated a bunch of gnome stuff.
23 > gnome-base/gnome-2.10-r1 and deps and
24 > gnome-base/gdm-2.6.0.9-r2
25 >
26 > Launching et (enemey territory) gives (in /var/log/messages)
27 > Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM unable to
28 > dlopen(/lib/security/pam_console.so)
29 > Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM [dlerror:
30 > /lib/security/pam_console.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
31 > file or directory]
32 > Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM adding faulty module:
33 > /lib/security/pam_console.so
34 > Jul 26 22:58:15 dsotm gdm(pam_unix)[23200]: session opened for user
35 > chris by (uid=0)
36 > Jul 26 22:58:23 dsotm su(pam_unix)[23301]: session opened for user
37 > root by (uid=1000)
38 > Jul 26 23:00:35 dsotm su(pam_unix)[23301]: session closed for user root
39 > Jul 26 23:00:39 dsotm gdm[23200]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
40 > error - Restarting :0
41 > Jul 26 23:00:39 dsotm gdm(pam_unix)[23200]: session closed for user chris
42 >
43 > gdm restarts .... no game
44 >
45 > I've tried commenting out all of
46 > dsotm ~ # grep console /etc/pam.d/*
47 > /etc/pam.d/gdm:session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
48 > /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin:session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
49 > /etc/pam.d/xdm:session optional pam_console.so
50 > /etc/pam.d/xserver:# Next line you need console ownership to be able
51 > to start X
52 > /etc/pam.d/xserver:#auth required pam_console.so
53 >
54 > restarting gdm, even rebooting, same error as above.
55 >
56 > tried setting USE="pam_console" emerge -Nva pam ... adding the login
57 > pam_console, uncommenting all of the above lines, i just get the
58 > Jul 26 22:41:05 dsotm gdm[8000]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
59 > error - Restarting :0
60 >
61 >
62 > i'm almost ready to USE="-pam" emerge -e world ...
63 >
64 > chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et George Roberts <georoberts@×××××.com>