[Thinkfinger-devel] TF stopped working somewhere between rev 72 and 88

[Christoph Siegenthaler]

Hi

I felt in need to catch up with the events on the list and update my own
setup and my ArchLinux (AUR) package of thinkfinger from rev 72 to 88.
Well, the subject already sums it up: thinkfinger doesn't work anymore
here. (No luck with rev 86 either)
Tf-tool still works, so this might again be a pam-issue.
Any hints were to start looking for errors on my side?
Feel free to ask for further infos about error logs or configurations.

Evening all,
Sigi

PS: Still testing this on my T43 (w/o p! ;-)

[Timo Hoenig]

Hi Christoph,

Post by Christoph Siegenthaler
I felt in need to catch up with the events on the list and update my own
setup and my ArchLinux (AUR) package of thinkfinger from rev 72 to 88.
Well, the subject already sums it up: thinkfinger doesn't work anymore
here. (No luck with rev 86 either)
Tf-tool still works, so this might again be a pam-issue.

That is the best news. I was almost tempted to skip the reply :-) Just
kidding.

Just for the record: Yes, you are facing a PAM issue.

Post by Christoph Siegenthaler
Any hints were to start looking for errors on my side?

If you're working on a recent SVN revision you may add the 'debug'
parameter for the PAM module. Just add 'debug' to the line
in /etc/pam.d/common-auth:

auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so debug

The PAM module then should be verbose -- just have a look
at /var/log/messages.

That's all I can tell you as I am not familiar with ArchLinux (e.g. if
uinput is set up properly, you may try running 'modprobe uinput').

Thanks,

Timo

Post by Christoph Siegenthaler
PS: Still testing this on my T43 (w/o p! ;-)

Those are good news. It really looks that my commits today to make the
T43p happy did not cause harm for other revision of the chip.

[Christoph Siegenthaler]

Hi Timo, hi list

Post by Timo Hoenig
Hi Christoph,
That is the best news. I was almost tempted to skip the reply :-) Just
kidding.
Just for the record: Yes, you are facing a PAM issue.

Post by Christoph Siegenthaler
Any hints were to start looking for errors on my side?

If you're working on a recent SVN revision you may add the 'debug'
parameter for the PAM module. Just add 'debug' to the line
auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so debug
The PAM module then should be verbose -- just have a look
at /var/log/messages.
That's all I can tell you as I am not familiar with ArchLinux (e.g. if
uinput is set up properly, you may try running 'modprobe uinput').

Thanks a lot, modprobing uinput did the trick! TF rev 88 works now. The
updated AUR package is on its way and the info about uinput will be
spread on wiki, Forum and AUR.

Post by Timo Hoenig
Thanks,
Timo

Keep up the good work!

Thanks again,
Sigi