[systemd-devel] Environment for prefdm.service

[David Michael]

Hi,

  I am attempting to integrate a desktop environment with Fedora 15,
and it includes its own display manager.

  It seems that prefdm.service always fails to start with it, and
multiple retries are logged in /var/log/audit and /var/log/messages .
However, running the bare command taken from prefdm.service always
seems to succeed without any trouble.  If there is any useful log
information from this event, I don't know where to find it.  (It
probably doesn't help that the prefdm script writes program output to
/dev/null .)

  Is there any obvious difference in the runtime environments that
would cause this?  The service fails both on boot and with `systemctl
restart prefdm.service` on a root shell, but `/etc/X11/prefdm
-nodaemon` works on the same shell.

  It may be something wrong with the display manager, but I have not
yet been able to dive into learning systemd, either.  I'm hoping if
it's something obvious on the systemd side, someone can point me in
the right direction before I go too far with this.

  Thanks for any advice you can offer.

David