* Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 08:12:16PM +0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger
[2011-10-02 12:15]: On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 12:56 +0400, Kyrill Detinov wrote:
I see a lot of warnings while lightdm is starting: http://susepaste.org/view/simple/46944922
I don't really know how 'independent' lightdm is from other DMs (GDM specifically here). The org.freedesktop.accounts service is provided by the package accountsservice. Installing this will likely remove the 5 errors mentioning it's absence. If this helps, nag the packager to at least Recommend accountsservice for lightdm.
LightDM shares no code with GDM, its GObject Interface library recently gained support for accountsservice (which is entirely optional though). I've added the recommends.
The 2nd one about ConsoleKit might be something as simple again... is ConsoleKit installed? If not, give this a try and if it solves it, same as above.
Yep, it was missing a dependency on ConsoleKit (I hope that solves the issue).
lightdm is not really recommended, it likely has bugs and security issues we already fixed in gdm and kdm over the years ... why isn't xfce using anohter DM?
Having an established codebase does not protect against simple symlink attacks as in CVE-2011-0727 (similar to the one you found in LightDM). What other display manager did you have in mind? GDM runs a complete GNOME session in the greeter dragging in half of GNOME3 through dependencies whereas KDM (which is mostly a Qt greeter on top of an XDM backend) drags in half of KDE4. XDM itself is stuck in the 80s when it comes to functionality, it doesn't even allow users to select their session or language, let alone fancy things like fast user switching. When it comes to bugginess and security we probably don't want to talk about LXDM, XDM's code base is pure beauty in comparison and pearls like [1][2] do not inspire confidence in its security (and its author's understanding thereof). So at least to me that narrows the choices down somewhat. Since LightDM will replace GDM as the default display manager in Ubuntu 11.10 I'm fairly hopeful that it will be properly supported through Canonical in case any issues emerge. I'd also welcome further review of the LightDM codebase. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.desktop.lxde.devel/1316 [2] http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde/lxdm;a=commitdiff;h=02... -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org