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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X
On Thu, 24 May 2018 07:24:59 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 09:51:21AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > Le 24/05/2018 à 07:52, Joel Roth a écrit :
> > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 04:37:18PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> > > > Hi knowledgeable colleagues!
> > > >
> > > > I recently upgraded to ascii, due to some itch I can't
> > > > quite remember now ;-)
> > [skip]
> > > [ 1208.067] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: The
> > > name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service
> > > files
> >
> >     Guess this was the itch and it's still there :-(
>
> Not my itch! That's the itch the rubs the wrong way :-)
>
> I hope elogin-pam doesn't do sick stuff like terminate
> your processes when you log out :-p


Joel, you can always work around the X as normal user thing by doing an
suid on either X or one of the shellscripts that calls it, can't
remember which.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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