On Saturday 03 August 2019 03:55:32 Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Or maybe its ssh thats using the new way, and xfce4 has not caught > > up. I > > https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg745969.ht >ml > > You're using lightdm as a display manager (graphical login)? > > If so > > sudo tail -f /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log > No such file. ls -l of that dir: root@picnc:/var/log/lightdm# ls -l total 900 -rw------- 1 root root 3686 Aug 1 13:37 lightdm.log -rw------- 1 root root 12377 Aug 1 13:36 lightdm.log.old -rw------- 1 root root 407863 Aug 3 05:05 seat0-greeter.log -rw------- 1 root root 472719 Aug 1 13:36 seat0-greeter.log.old -rw------- 1 root root 889 Aug 1 13:36 x-0.log -rw------- 1 root root 948 Aug 1 13:36 x-0.log.old
But seat0-greeter.log(s) are all this: ** Message: 13:37:04.194: Starting lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.6 (Dec 27 2018, 16:15:47) ** Message: 13:37:04.203: [Configuration] Reading file: /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/01_debian.conf ** Message: 13:37:04.204: [Configuration] Reading file: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf ** (lightdm-gtk-greeter:424): WARNING **: 13:37:06.062: [PIDs] Failed to execute command: upstart (lightdm-gtk-greeter:424): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:37:10.850: Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menubar owner GreeterMenuBar) With this last line repeating at 1 minute intervals, almost half a meg of them. From then until now. Confirmed by a tail -f. This looks like something that might be fixable, but I don't grok this process enough to do more than report. > as well as the contents of > > /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log > > might provide some clue. > > > haven't a clue whats changed, but it did work several times, then > > stopped. Completely changing my passwd from this ssh login worked, > > I backed out and tried it, worked as expected from ssh, but is still > > rejected from its own keyboard, so I changed it back. ?? What > > library does that? Is there a version jump that arm did, but got > > miss installed? > > > > Thank you. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>