[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

** Changed in: gnome-screensaver Status: New => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435928 Title: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver To manage

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

Could you take a look at the "Authentication failure" sections on the following wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingScreenLocking Also, are you still having this issue with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)? ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You re

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

** Changed in: gnome-screensaver Importance: Unknown => Medium -- Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

** Changed in: gnome-screensaver Status: Unknown => New -- Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mail

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

I checked for this solution around the web, and it looks like the ownership and permissions are already correct: $ ls -la /sbin/unix_chkpwd -rwxr-sr-x 1 root shadow 30400 2009-09-04 10:26 /sbin/unix_chkpwd $ stat -c %a /sbin/unix_chkpwd 2755 I should note that I'm using only a single login on

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

For me this happened after a copy of files from one partition to another (with cp). The solution was: chmod +s /sbin/unix_chkpwd The cause was: the default options of cp don't keep setuid bits, -- Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) ** Also affects: gnome-screensaver via

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

Reported bug upstream . ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #603350 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603350 -- Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435928 You received thi

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

Bug still present on Ubuntu NBR 9.10, with gnome-screensaver 2.28.0-0ubuntu3. Workaround discussed at . Looked for possible duplicates, but it doesn't match the description of any of them: gnome-screensaver-

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

A workaround is to kill gnome-screensaver, but it's not restarted automatically, so screen locking (Ctrl+Alt+L) doesn't work anymore. Is there some trick to see which password is actually sent to the underlying code? I suspect the problem can be with some sort of garbling because of the keyboard l

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

This still happens once in a while, and seems to only happen if the computer is left for a while in screensaver mode (at least an hour seems to be the lower limit). Using the newest standard kernel: $ uname -r 2.6.28-16-generic -- Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

[Bug 435928] Re: Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver

** Package changed: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) => gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) -- Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435928 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt