Slim hangs on login

jakobcreutzfeldt · 2012-07-24 22:01:31

I've seen a couple similar threads but most are old and haven't helped. I was getting along just fine without a login manager but I read in a different thread that USB automounting and such with Systemd and polkit (no Consolekit) won't work with startx alone. My .xinitrc file works fine with startx otherwise. When I try to log in with Slim, though, the screen just hangs there with Slim's wallpaper. I can still switch over to another TTY and startx normally.

Slim was installed as normal. I'm running it via

systemctl enable slim.service

/var/log/slim.log only shows this:

slim: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.

/etc/slim.conf:

# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
default_path        /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
default_xserver     /usr/bin/X
xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp vt07

# Commands for halt, login, etc.
halt_cmd            /usr/bin/systemctl halt 
reboot_cmd          /usr/bin/systemctl reboot
console_cmd         /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login"
suspend_cmd         /usr/bin/systemctl suspend

# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path         /usr/bin/xauth 

# Xauth file for server
#authfile           /var/run/slim.auth
authfile            /run/slim.auth

# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
numlock             on

# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
# hidecursor          false

# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
#
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd           exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session

# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
#
# sessionstart_cmd	some command
# sessionstop_cmd	some command

# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
# daemon	yes

# Available sessions (first one is the default).
# The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
sessions           dwm 

# Executed when pressing F11 (requires imagemagick)
screenshot_cmd      import -window root /slim.png

# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg         Welcome to %host

# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg         Session: 

# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg       The system is halting...
reboot_msg         The system is rebooting...

# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
#default_user        simone

# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#focus_password      no

# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#auto_login          no


# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to 
# randomly choose from
current_theme	    archlinux-darch-grey

# Lock file
#lockfile            /var/lock/slim.lock
lockfile            /run/lock/slim.lock

# Log file
logfile             /var/log/slim.log

I modified the lock and auth file locations to match the recent filesystem changes (should a bug report be filed about that?) but it didn't help. I also modified the power control commands to use the Systemd commands but that shouldn't matter. The rest of it is the default. No errors jump out at me here but I understand that this file is the #1 culprit for such Slim errors.

.xinitrc

#!/bin/bash

DEFAULT_SESSION=dwm

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
   for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
     [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
   done
   unset f
fi

# Keyboard
setxkbmap dvorak -option ctrl:nocaps

# Disable touchpad while typing
syndaemon -t -k -i 2 -d &

# Set up fonts
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local/
xset fp rehash

# Load Xresources
[[ -e ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

# Conky > dwm bar
conky | while read -r; do xsetroot -name "$REPLY"; done &

# Set wallpaper
sh ~/.fehbg &

# newsbeuter
st -t "Newsbeuter" -e newsbeuter &

# uzbl
export UZBL_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/home/brandon/Downloads

emacs --daemon &

case $1 in
    dwm)
        # Launch dwm
        exec dwm
        ;;
    stumpwm)
	# Launch stumpwm
	exec /usr/bin/stumpwm
	;;
    *)
        exec $DEFAULT_SESSION
        ;;
esac

/etc/pam.d/slim:

#%PAM-1.0
auth            requisite       pam_nologin.so
auth            required        pam_env.so
auth            required        pam_unix.so
auth            optional        pam_mount.so
account         required        pam_unix.so
password        required        pam_unix.so
password        optional        pam_mount.so
session         required        pam_limits.so
session         required        pam_unix.so
session         optional        pam_mount.so
session         optional        pam_loginuid.so
session	        optional	pam_systemd.so

I added pam_mount because my /home directory is encrypted. Also, the systemd line originally started with a '-' which I removed, but to no avail.

$ ps -e | grep slim
  309 ?        00:00:00 slim
  408 ?        00:00:00 slim

I'm at a complete loss here. I can't find any information on how to get this working.

Incidentally, if anyone can recommend a modern display manager that works well with Systemd and its polkit integration so that I won't need Consolekit, I'd be happy to hear it, unless it's GDM. That pulls in way too many dependencies.

Last edited by jakobcreutzfeldt (2012-07-24 22:10:38)

jakobcreutzfeldt · 2012-07-24 22:23:04

I tried setting up LXDM and I was able to log in that way but it didn't respect my .xinitrc. Too tired to deal with this for now...

Inxsible · 2012-07-26 14:56:43

See this ::

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145167

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145146

Closed on request

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#1 2012-07-24 22:01:31

Slim hangs on login

#2 2012-07-24 22:23:04

Re: Slim hangs on login

#3 2012-07-26 14:56:43

Re: Slim hangs on login

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