Re: F41 -> F42 (openbox+slim: X does not get started)

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Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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

Nice.  I believe that was changed per:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwitchToJXLforDefaultWallpaper

> Another point: /etc/pam.d/slim uses pam_console.so that is not
> provided (any more ?) on F42.

The pam_console.so was removed from pam in Fedora 39:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemovePamConsole
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2166692

The change page even has a link to slim as a dependency:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1822229

That was automatically closed as WONTFIX because it was
reported in 2020, during the Fedora 33 cycle. :)

Since it's working in Fedora 41, I would take that as sign
that dropping that from the slim.pam in the Fedora package
won't do any harm and will avoid the warning.

-- 
Todd

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