Todd, Thank you for this! On Sat May31'25 04:18:49PM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 16:18:49 -0400 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: F41 -> F42 (openbox+slim: X does not get started) > > Ranjan Maitra via users wrote: > > On Sat May31'25 07:48:07AM, Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Then look at the logs from tty9: journalctl -b, /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > > > I am able to get into one of these machines and was able to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > > > Here it is: > > > > https://paste.centos.org/view/f54fe5e6 > > Searching for errors (EE) in the xorg log shows this on line > 437: > > [ 39.627] (EE) Failed to open authorization file "/var/run/slim/slim.auth": No such file or directory > > I know nothing about slim, but that seems like a problem. > The package does include /var/run/slim and has a tmpfiles.d > config which should recreate it on boot, but perhaps it is > missing. If not, whatever creates slim.auth seems amiss. Thanks, interesting, but I checked and the same error also shows up on the F41 box (and does not seem to create an X "problem"). And there is no slim.auth (on F41) anywhere. Perhaps things have become stricter and needs to be fixed (from F42 onwards). The version on slim is slim-1.4.0-10.fc42 on F42 and slim-1.4.0-9.fc41 on F41. I did not think that the last numeral mattered much. However, I note that slim has a 1.4.1 version upstream. Not sure if it will fix anything though. https://sourceforge.net/projects/slim-fork/ > FWIW, /var/run should be changed to /run to avoid systemd > warnings (if nothing else). I see, the spec file appears to have the following: * Wed Jun 01 2011 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1.3.2-6 - fix #708693 - added tmfiles.d config to create /var/run/slim directory > That's really more of problem for the upstream and/or Fedora > maintainers, but any interested users could submit a patch > to correct this either upstream or to Fedora's package. OK, I am embarrassed to say that I think I am the Fedora maintainer (from the retired original package but did not receive email about the updated version). But what is the change that I need to do in the spec file to get the /var/run changed to /run? I have posted the slim.spec that I have here: https://paste.centos.org/view/c6952de4 (I was actually under the impression that packaging tools took care of such things automatically.) Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
