{"id":161,"date":"2006-08-26T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nax.cz\/2006\/08\/26\/no-attached-device-bug-gdm-dont-show-messages-and-debug-messages\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T16:44:12","slug":"no-attached-device-bug-gdm-dont-show-messages-and-debug-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"No attached device bug, GDM don&#8217;t show messages and debug messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another useful bug report from my favorite user and my reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen logging in via gdm, the messages are missing. I&#8217;m also using the upek_touchchip.cmsg form pam-bsdbioapi.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting &#8211; I have messages in gdm. Yes, it&#8217;s not so much comfortable<br \/>\nas with gnome-screensaver (in gdm messages are written as on console &#8211;<br \/>\none after another). Even I don&#8217;t need to enter username. Only swipe<br \/>\nfinger. Which version of gdm are you using? I have installed GDM<br \/>\n2.14.9. Also please check \/etc\/pam.d\/gdm configuration. I have there<br \/>\nthis line:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nauth       sufficient   pam_bioapi.so<br \/>\n{5550454b-2054-464d-2f45-535320425350} \/etc\/bioapi\/pam\/bioshadow.db -d :0<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nIf you add -g, UPEK&#8217;s driver should use it&#8217;s own gui (as with 0.3.0 version).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd another thing: I have a Ubuntu Edgy install in a vmware. If I don&#8217;t enable the fingerprint usb device, I get a nice thing after entering my username:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nax.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/no_reader_attached-bug.jpg\" alt=\"no_reader_attached-bug\" \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s definitely bug. I don&#8217;t know yet if it is bug in pam_bioapi or<br \/>\nin UPEK&#8217;s BSP. I&#8217;ll look at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd it&#8217;s also confusing that the debug messages are shown in the console and not in \/var\/log\/auth.log.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Try to do this:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n# touch \/tmp\/pam-debug.log<br \/>\n# chmod 666 \/tmp\/pam-debug.log<br \/>\n<\/code><code><\/p>\n<p>I'm going to rewite this to allow specify user debug argument and then<br \/>\nlog to auth.log as before. But firs I have to finish \"only root can<br \/>\nread bioshadow.db\" support first. This mean lot of changes.<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another useful bug report from my favorite user and my reply: When logging in via gdm, the messages are missing. I&#8217;m also using the upek_touchchip.cmsg form pam-bsdbioapi. Interesting &#8211; I have messages in gdm. Yes, it&#8217;s not so much comfortable as with gnome-screensaver (in gdm messages are written as on console &#8211; one after another). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nax.cz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}