#1038701 lightdm logs "lightdm[1166]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file" error on boot

Package:
lightdm
Source:
lightdm
Description:
simple display manager
Submitter:
Yura
Date:
2023-06-21 07:36:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1038701#5
Date:
2023-06-20 09:44:18 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I've noticed that on boot system logs the "lightdm[1166]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file" error message from lightdm, which indicates that there is some issue.

Nevertheless, the booting process succeeds.

The expectation is that such error shouldn't occur.
#1038701#10
Date:
2023-06-20 21:23:47 UTC
From:
To:
control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/70

Hey,

this looks to be https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/70 but there's
not definite conclusion in that issue. It looks like gnome-keyring is launched
for the lightdm user but lacks space to write some files. I don't think we
really need gnome-keyring as part of the lightdm session anyway so I don't
think it's really problematic, mostly cosmetic at that point.

Regards,
#1038701#17
Date:
2023-06-21 07:25:46 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Thanks for the response! Yes, it seems so. If I'm not mistaken, the problem was also present for the entirety of the Bullseye lifecycle. I guess the conclusion is that it's an upstream issue and nothing could be done to address it on the Debian side. Maybe in the future better display managers will be developed, but for now we have to live with it. GDM is better suited for GNOME, SDDM for KDE and all more or less supported that is currently available for Xfce is Lightdm.

Best Regards,
Yura

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