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Some time ago (about 2-3 month actually) my system suddenly stopped booting into GDM. Instead, a black screen and a spinning mouse cursor shows. I did not change any system configuration at that time, but I had installed a number of package updates the day before. Sorry for not having the time to file this earlier. Anyway, going to the text console and logging in there showed this: login[1156]: ecryptfs: fill_keyring: Unable to get ecryptfs pam data : No module specific data is present I removed the ecryptfs-utils package and the system booted fine again. Yesterday I tried this again... installed ecryptfs-utils, mounted my ~/Private which worked fine. But after reboot I got the same problem again. Any idea what could cause this?
are there any other lines in the logs (/var/log/messages or /var/log/secure )? The line, you've attached is somehow debug message, it does not mean any problem, if you do not use pam automount. what is output of grep -r ecryptfs /etc/pam.d on your machine? And what is content of your /etc/pam.d/postlogin file? Thanks
$ grep -r ecryptfs /etc/pam.d /etc/pam.d/postlogin:auth optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap /etc/pam.d/postlogin:password optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap /etc/pam.d/postlogin:session optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap /etc/pam.d/postlogin-ac:auth optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap /etc/pam.d/postlogin-ac:password optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap /etc/pam.d/postlogin-ac:session optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap $ cat /etc/pam.d/postlogin #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap password optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap session optional pam_ecryptfs.so unwrap
btw I don't think there is anything of interest in dmesg. this is what I see when logging in root on the console: [ 126.254489] login[1163]: ecryptfs: pam_sm_authenticate: pam auth stack calls pam_ecryptfs module [ 126.254499] login[1163]: ecryptfs: pam_sm_authenticate: pam_ecryptfs: username = [root] [ 126.274294] login[1163]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0) [ 126.274305] login[1163]: ecryptfs: fill_keyring: Unable to get ecryptfs pam data : No module specific data is present [ 126.352986] login[1163]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty2
I've just tried to reproduce it on Fedora 15 and it works fine. Also, it's really odd that gdm does not work, because ecryptfs itself does nothing. It's called when something verifies your password and that's where gdm has already started. So nothing that should affect gdm start. Do you have your system fully updated? What version of ecryptfs-utils do you use? Do you see any selinux denial messages?
Yes,everything is up to date. SELinux is completely disabled.
I still don't know what causes this, because I can't reproduce it and there is no obvious error here. - do you use some special configuration for gdm? - do you use automatic login? - did you changed pam configuration? - do you have fingerprint reader? please try to reproduce this again. After you reproduce this problem, run following command (it's just a one-line command, bugzilla will split it probably): tar cvzf /tmp/logs.tgz /var/log/audit/audit.log /var/log/boot.log /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/gdm/ It will create file /tmp/logs.tgz, please attach it here. Thanks
- do you use some special configuration for gdm? no - dont even know where I could do this - do you use automatic login? on one system I do, one one I don't. both were affected - did you changed pam configuration? no (but the ecryptfs package did?) - do you have fingerprint reader? on one system, but I think it is disabled I will try to reproduce this later if I get a chance
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