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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers fprintd messages in /var/log/messages Post 302577474 by JakesHat on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 07:36:18 AM
Old 11-29-2011
It's not running as a service.

Code:
#service fprintd status
fprintd: unrecognized service

I tried to remove it with rpm -e but it responded

Code:
failed dependencies:

... and when I tried to remove the dependencies because they also were all related to the fingerprint reader they each said failed dependencies. And the last one even though it's listed as a dependency said it is not installed... that was a gdm-plugin....

This is really an annoying problem.

The man page for fprintd says
Quote:
The fprintd daemon is accessed through the D-Bus by those command-line utilities
I guess I'll have to go learn about D-Bus...

---------- Post updated at 07:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:40 AM ----------

When I tried rpm -e I gave it the specific packages to remove, and as I stated it didn't work. However when I tried
Code:
yum remove fprintd

It found 2 packages to remove, and successfully removed them both, and I no longer receive errors in /var/log/messages when using su or sudo.

Problem solved! Thanks Smilie

One quick question though... If I would have simply used
Code:
rpm -e fprintd

rather than
Code:
rpm -e fprintd-0.1-19.git04fd09cfa.el6.i686

would it have worked?
 

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fprintd(1)																fprintd(1)

NAME
fprintd - Fingerprint management daemon, and test applications SYNOPSYS
fprintd-enroll [username] fprintd-list username [usernames...] fprintd-verify [-f finger] [usename] fprintd-delete username [usernames...] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the fprintd command-line utilities. The fprintd daemon is accessed through D-Bus by those command-line utilities. ARGUMENTS
username The username for the user for which you want to query or modify the fingerprint database. Not that fprintd-list and fprintd-delete require at least one username to be passed, and support multiple usernames. fprintd-enroll and fprintd-verify will use the current username if none are passed on the command-line. -f finger For fprintd-enroll, the finger to enroll. Possible values are: left-thumb, left-index-finger, left-middle-finger, left-ring-finger, left-little-finger, right-thumb, right-index-finger, right- middle-finger, right-ring-finger, right-little-finger. The default is automatic, selecting the first available finger for swipe devices, or all the enrolled fingers, for press devices. TEST APPLICATIONS
fprintd-enroll Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database. fprintd-list Will list the user's enrolled fingerprints. fprintd-verify Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database. fprintd-enroll Will enroll the user's right index finger into the database. AUTHOR
fprintd was written by Bastien Nocera and Daniel Drake. DIRECTORIES
By default, fprintd stores the fingerprints in /var/lib/fprint/ SEE ALSO
dbus-daemon, gnome-about-me freedesktop 2010-08-16 fprintd(1)
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