Description of problem: /var/run/console is empty when logged in via gdm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-1.1.8-18.fc22.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 22 with gdm as login manager 2. Log in 3. ls /var/run/console Actual results: Directory is empty Expected results: Directory should contain console.lock and a counter named after my username. Additional info: It appears that pam_console is being asked to match against "/dev/tty2" but none of the strings in /etc/security/console.handlers matches the /dev at the beginning. I am guessing this is new behaviour of gdm in GNOME 3.16 because it does seem to work properly in Fedora 21.
What is output of grep 'pam_console' -r /etc/pam.d ? The /dev is removed by pam_console itself, so that shouldn't be the issue.
$ grep 'pam_console' -r /etc/pam.d /etc/pam.d/gdm-password:session optional pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/login:session optional pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/gdm-smartcard:session optional pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/gdm-pin:session optional pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin:session optional pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/xserver:auth required pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint:session optional pam_console.so The kicker is that it starts working again if I put /dev/tty[0-9] into /etc/security/console.handlers.
Ah, you're right, I was confused because I thought the text login command uses the full path with /dev/ and that pam_console removes it. But that is not the case. Anyway, I will modify the default console.handlers to allow for the /dev/ prefix. Note that the pam_console will go away in the future completely.
Hi Tomas, I just spend half an hour debugging a problem with xawtv (v4l-conf) which is caused by this. Changing the line in /etc/security/console.handlers from: console consoledevs tty[0-9][0-9]* vc/[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ :[0-9]+ to: console consoledevs tty[0-9][0-9]* /dev/tty[0-9][0-9]* vc/[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ :[0-9]+ Fixes this, it would be nice if you could create an update package with this fixed. Thanks & Regards, Hans