On Monday 20 Mar 2017 07:18:17 Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 17 Mar 2017 09:49:14 Mick wrote: > >> I don't have a fix for you, but from the errors it seems pam is not > >> happy. Display Managers and various services install pam modules in > >> /etc/pam.d/ to manage user authentication. It seems something is > >> amiss there, or some kind of conflict between gnome-keyring and LXDE. > > > > Yes, I see that. I also see a lot of stuff that may be causing it. I > > deleted .cache/lxsessions/LXDE/run.log, ran startx and immediately > > logged out, and this is what I found (sorry, it's 110 lines): > > > > $ cat run.log > > .... > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > So it looks as though something hasn't been installed right. I'm running > > an emerge -e world at the moment to see if I can pick something up from > > it.
> I don't see anything strange in your log; LXDE should start even without > notification-deamon installed. > Is there anything strange in /var/log/X.org.0.log? > "ran startx and immediately logged out": do you use a login manager? Even after all my digging and rebuilding, I was still getting an error on startup - not the one I was asking about, but I don't remember just what it was now. In the end I ditched LXDE and went for Fluxbox. -- Regards Peter