On Tuesday 29 July 2008 17:37, Michael Schuster wrote: > ????????Cannot unlock the session because the authentication system > ????????failed to work; you must kill krunner_lock (pid 1,234) manually > > this is of course hard if I don't have a second machine nearby which I can > use to ssh into the locked-up machine (or does KDE offer sth. like virtual > consoles? :-)
Ah, I might have warned y'alls about that. Because the KDE stuff is built and installed as a plain user, the desktop locking stuff is not installed setuid root. And that needs to check your password -- which then fails. You can chown root:bin + chmod 4755 the relevant binaries (don't know which those are off the top of my head) and test from there, but ISTR that there was an issue even then. So keep a second machine handy and/or be prepared to ctrl-alt-backspace. > (btw: the pid seems strangely formatted - I wouldn't expect any punctuation > in a pid). You're right, that's no place to format a number with locale-specific formatting.
