Ken Moffat wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 11:55:56AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
Just anecdotal comments - I have been ensuring that all my
currently-maintained systems are updated to firefox-45. On my first
test box, where I had so much fun with kde4, startkde no longer
works. I can (happily) live with that. But on an older system on
the same box, using kf5, startkde worked and let me in - so I left it
building, and a kf5 (or plasma) screen lock came up - that would NOT
let me login, I had to reboot.
I did have that too. Did you include PAM and rebuild shadow? I did and
found that I needed the files /etc/pam.d/kde and /etc/pam.d/kde-np in
kde-workspace. After a reboot, the screen lock worked OK.
Interesting. I'm not sure if I built PAM on that system, but I am
fairly sure that I have used startkde in the past, left it, and been
able to get in - in fact, I do not recall the screen locker, I was
expecting to see xscreensaver.
I do think the screen locker is new. I haven't checked the settings for it.
Now, on my old machine which is now mostly reserved for processing
photos, the most-recent build (June last year - yes, I know, I
should have replaced that by now) which has been happily letting me
login via sddm for all these months suddenly decided that neither
ken's nor lfs's passwords were correct. So root changed ken's
password, but that made not the slightlest difference. And a quick
check shows that the system is not full (anyway, /tmp is a tmpfs).
So, just when I was almsot getting used to graphical logins, I think
I might be heading back to 'startx'. Ain't life grand ?
Personally I like startx because we do so much changing that I don't want to
be limited during boot. I only use a DM for testing.
Sometimes, I like the eye-candy of a login screen :)
Your distro... :)
-- Bruce
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