Bug#559369: gdm: Warnings in /var/log/auth.log

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Mar 7 15:44:50 UTC 2010


reassign 559369 libpam0g
severity 559369 wishlist
retitle 559369 libpam0g: please clarify "adding faulty module" error message
kthxbye

On Fri, Dec  4, 2009 at 14:40:03 +0000, Greg Kochanski wrote:

> OK. Thanks.
> Can the error/warning message be changed from
> "PAM adding faulty module:" to "PAM adding faulty or nonexistant module:"
> 
> That would clarify the log files quite a bit.
> 
Reassigning to PAM.  Steve, as you can see below the issue is the error
message when libpam-gnome-keyring is not installed but /etc/pam.d/gdm
tries to load it.

> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 22:42 +0000, Greg Kochanski a écrit :
> >>Dec  1 02:03:30 desk gdm[3635]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so): /lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> >>Dec  1 02:03:31 desk gdm[3635]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so
> >>
> >>But such a file doesn't seem to exist:
> >
> >It’s in libpam-gnome-keyring, which is a suggested package:
> >
> >>Versions of packages gdm suggests:
> >>pn  libpam-gnome-keyring          <none>     (no description available)
> >
> >Unfortunately there is no way to enable the module for GDM only when it
> >is installed.
> >
> >The warnings are harmless, though.
> >
> >Cheers,
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