Hi, Thanks for fw'ing. I just replied to the message Shlomi sent originally but as he'd CC'ed me it didn't go via the list and thus I replied accidentally in private to him.
See below... 'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 23/07/12 12:15 did gyre and gimble: >> Replying to myself, I'd like to note that I found a solution to problem #1 >> and >> to problem #3 in these posts: >> >> * https://listman.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2001-December/msg00069.html >> >> * >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/pam-authentification-failed-cannot-start-x-server-117935/ >> >> What I did was (as root): >> >> # mkdir -p /var/lock/console >> # touch /var/lock/console/shlomif (where "shlomif" is your user name). >> >> This fixed this problem. Since /var/lock was misplaced due to the /usr move >> transition, it was indeed caused by it. > > OK, so whatever package ships /var/lock/console folder needs to be > updated to ship a tmpfiles.d conf file to create that folder on boot. > > /var/lock should be a symlink to /run/lock and thus reside on tmpfs and > thus the tmpfiles.d file should take care of things for you. This issue should now be solved in the latest pam package. Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
