fprintd errors in Virtual environment
Every time a user uses su I get the following error messages in /var/log/messages:
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Nov 23 04:24:55 <REMOVED> abrt[26142]: saved core dump of pid 26141 (/usr/libexec/fprintd) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1322018695-26141.new/coredump (753664 bytes) I've searched google, and found a few answers, but nothing I have been able to use. From what I understand the fprintd daemon is used for a fingerprint reader which I have no use for on my virtual servers. One solution I read on another site stated Quote:
-Jake |
really??? 78 views and no help? I don't think this is too complex, someone should be able to tell me how to stop this daemon. On a test system I tried rpm -e on the fprintd packages I saw but it wouldn't let it uninstall because of dependencies.
112 views, and still no answers? I can't be the only one with this problem... this is a default install of RHEL 6.1 in VMware. Anybody?? |
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I finally got it figured out too. I was able to remove it... I think it was yum that I used to remove it.
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I had a similar problem on a virtual Centos 6.1 server which I resolved with:
yum remove fprintd libfprint |
Same problem on CentOS 6.2 virtual machine on WS2008R2/Hyper-V
text from /var/log/messages: Code:
abrt[2092]: saved core dump of pid 2091 (/usr/libexec/fprintd) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2012-02-01-18:25:45-2091.new/coredump (778240 bytes) Code:
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I'm running RHEL 6.2 in a VMWare environment:
yum remove fprintd libfprint also resolved my core dump issues. |
I also had the problem with RHEL 6.2 running on a VM on ESX. Apparently authentication via a fingerprint reader is enabled by default in RHEL 6 and this somehow causes problems in a virtual environment. You can confirm that it is enabled by running:
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# grep -i fprintd /etc/sysconfig/authconfig Code:
# authconfig --disablefingerprint --update Code:
# grep -i fprintd /etc/sysconfig/authconfig -- JEscala |
Nice to see a different solution :) I think I would still opt for removing it completely... if we're never going to use it, why even keep it installed.
Considering everything seems to be going virtual now, maybe Red Hat should be informed about this so they can by default have it disabled in future releases. |
fprintd in CentOS 6.2 VMs in Windows Azure
This problem is currently endemic in the Windows Azure VMs based on OpenLogic's CentOS 6.2 images. The fixes listed here work there.
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