On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:48:16 +0200 Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I don't know slim, but being a display manager, it's him that starts
> Xorg. Look thus for slim traces in the journal, and also in it's
> logfiles: /var/log/slim.log
I installed slim on a test machine. /var/log/slim.log says:
slim: could not load background image for theme 'default'
Due to this broken link (in F42):
/usr/share/slim/themes/default/background.png \
-> ../../../backgrounds/f42/default/f42-01-day.png
An immediate workaround is to modify slim.conf with:
current_theme original
that uses the images in /usr/share/slim/themes/original/
slim starts then properly:
systemctl status slim
<snip>
Main PID: 57856 (slim)
<snip>
CGroup: /system.slice/slim.service
├─57856 /usr/bin/slim
└─57858 /usr/libexec/Xorg -auth /var/run/slim/slim.auth
Otherwise it fails with
Main PID: 55882 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
systemd[1]: slim.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
systemd[1]: slim.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
systemd[1]: slim.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start slim.service - SLiM Login Manager.
/usr/share/backgrounds/f42/default contains:
f42-01-day.jxl f42-01-night.jxl f42.xml
Linking /usr/share/slim/themes/default/background.jpg to
../../../backgrounds/f42/default/f42-01-day.jxl
doesn't work although slim opens it (seen with strace). I suspect
that the slim code should be modified to manage those .jxl (JPEG XL
codestream) files.
Another point: /etc/pam.d/slim uses pam_console.so that is not
provided (any more ?) on F42.
--
francis
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