kscreensaver appears to be failing to authenticate my password to unlock the screen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Sit down in front of workstation after kscreensaver has locked 2. Enter password 3. kscreesaverc going back to locked Actual Results: I have to kill X, losing all my unsaved work ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolv to edit /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver Change : auth include system-auth to auth required pam_permit.so Thanks to Fernando Villareal http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109376 (xscreensaver bug) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LC_ALL="fr_FR.utf8" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acpi alsa apm arts avahi avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cjk cli composite crypt cups dbus directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd fam fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack jpeg kde kdexdelta libg++ libwww live lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad mikmod mime motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer musepack nas ncurses network nfs nls nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix ppds pppd print python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba scanner sdl session sox spell spl sse ssl svg symlink tcltk tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs wxwindowsx x86 xine xinerama xml xmms xorg xosd xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_joystick kernel_linux linguas_fr userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #0) > Resolv to edit /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver > Change : > auth include system-auth > to > auth required pam_permit.so Huh, well that most certainly isn't a proper solution...
The problem is with xscreensaver, not kscreensaver. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109376 ***
