2nd runit installation

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2nd runit installation

20 July 2018, 23:26:58

So I did another runit installation. Two oddities:

1) Cannot successfully create a user that can login to their home directory; and
2) Cannot use any wireless card whatsoever.

With respect to the first: I have checked and modified permissions, deleted and re-added users, etc. but cannot login from the prompt ("permission denied").

With respect to the second: if I have checked and unblocked rfkill, etc but nothing works ("link not ready").

I installed 'base base-devel xorg xorg-xinit networkmanager wpa_supplicant' and so on. I must be an idiot because I cannot puzzle this one out.

Re: 2nd runit installation

Reply #1 – 20 July 2018, 23:59:38

Try to install package "xorg-xwrapper"

Re: 2nd runit installation

Reply #2 – 21 July 2018, 18:46:36

For xorg logins (especially with login managers), xorg-xwrapper is a must because then xorg needs root permissions. About the wifi situation, can you try to activate the card with ifconfig and iwconfig? Does wicd work? Please, elaborate a little on your setup (login manager/startx, network manager system, steps to reproduce).

Re: 2nd runit installation

Reply #3 – 22 July 2018, 10:19:33

For the first one, make sure the UID of your username and the owner UID of the home directory is the same.

Re: 2nd runit installation

Reply #4 – 22 July 2018, 18:31:44

Thanks.

IDs, permissions, and ownership match -- still "change directory failed: Permission denied." (Elogind seems to be providing a session.)

This is from the command prompt. Can login as root and launch X. But wireless unusable ("link is not ready") and it is not a firmware problem because no usb wireless will respond either.

I suppose I could install a display manager but my first attempt (with LXDM) failed utterly (I have had little luck in this department except with SDDM, which is, nevertheless, not my favorite.)

P. S. Xorg-xwrapper was of no help to any of these problems.

Re: 2nd runit installation

Reply #5 – 23 July 2018, 03:43:15

/etc/config.d/xdm its line 10 in mine change to lxdm so it looks like this DISPLAYMANAGER="lxdm"