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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

Re the root login failure, I just tried it here, without success, and I can see the following in my auth.log:

Mar 12 09:44:02 tk-i5ka PAM-securetty[8678]: access denied: tty 'tty8' is not secure !
Mar 12 09:44:04 tk-i5ka qingy[8678]: Authentication failure: wrong password for user 'root' (UID 0)
Mar 12 09:44:18 tk-i5ka qingy-DirectFB[8678]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_console.so)
Mar 12 09:44:18 tk-i5ka qingy-DirectFB[8678]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_console.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
Mar 12 09:44:18 tk-i5ka qingy-DirectFB[8678]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_console.so

I have to admit that I don't know much about how PAM works, but I can say that I definitely don't have /lib/security/pam_console.so on my system, and it's not part of the pam package either. /etc/pam.d/qingy lists it as optional.

The lack of root login has bever bothered me, but I'm curious now - I'll see if I can dig up anything.

syamajala

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

thanks. I know a little about pam from playing with openldap. I'll also see what I can do. I didn't notice this until now, but my touchscreen seems to work with directfb. Its just not calibrated.

syamajala

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

The problem is with /etc/securetty. Because qingy uses tty0-9 insead of vc/1 ... /etc/securetty needs to look like this

#
# /etc/securetty
#

console
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
tty0
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7

you could probably get rid of vc/1 through vc/5 and leave vc/6 if thats the one where qingy isn't running. but i didn't try it.

syamajala

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

oh yeah i forgot tomk: you can comment out the pam_console line in /etc/pam.d/qingy.

syamajala

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

just found out that the pam fix also lets me put my system to sleep from the qingy menu!!! Thanks tomk, for pointing out the pam issue.

Snowman

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Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

oh yeah i forgot tomk: you can comment out the pam_console line in /etc/pam.d/qingy.

My PKGBUILD in AUR already does that.   I did that change a while ago when I noticed the file not found message in my logs.   BTW, a google search pointed me to a pam rpm containing the file.

syamajala: With these changes, can you shutdown/reboot from qingy?

syamajala

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

Snowman: yes.

songochain

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Re: some cool stuff: qingy and graphical grub

Hi, i've installed qingy and i can do login in a tty and enter in my session but then i cant type nothing. I've a kernel26ck with grub-gfx and i've installed qingy following the wiki. Here's my grub:

title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26ck root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x318 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26ck.img

Any idea?
thanks