Slimski problem on AntiX
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6CT5T)
My laptop ("littleboy") runs AntiX and I update it once a week at the weekend. Today, the display manager slimski failed at boot. It also fails when I try to run slimski's rc script as root. I can't remember if slimski was included in last week's update; no doubt there's a dpkg command that would show me when it was last updated but I'm very rusty on dpkg/apt.
I can't use startx as an unprivileged user on this system because the kernel is built to not allow video memory remapping; I can use startx as root, so the problem isn't within Xorg itself. Slimski has a log which suggests a pam problem. Maybe pam was in last week's update but I can't remember that either.
I'm happy to provide further info on demand, but bear in mind that this is a different machine from my desktop "bigboy" which I'm on now, so getting files across isn't an instant thing.
I can't use startx as an unprivileged user on this system because the kernel is built to not allow video memory remapping; I can use startx as root, so the problem isn't within Xorg itself. Slimski has a log which suggests a pam problem. Maybe pam was in last week's update but I can't remember that either.
I'm happy to provide further info on demand, but bear in mind that this is a different machine from my desktop "bigboy" which I'm on now, so getting files across isn't an instant thing.