This bug affects me, and I'm running 20.04. It started a couple of
months ago.
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Title:
Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome
** Changed in: gnome-screensaver
Status: New = Expired
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Title:
Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver
To
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
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** Changed in: gnome-screensaver
Importance: Unknown = Medium
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Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver
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** Changed in: gnome-screensaver
Status: Unknown = New
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Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver
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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,
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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
** 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 still present on Ubuntu NBR 9.10, with gnome-screensaver
2.28.0-0ubuntu3. Workaround discussed at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741067/see-gnome-terminal-output-
in-virtual-console.
Looked for possible duplicates, but it doesn't match the description of any of
them:
Reported bug upstream
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603350.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #603350
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603350
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Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435928
You received this
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
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
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Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver
** Package changed: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) = gnome-screensaver
(Ubuntu)
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Password works in virtual terminal but not in Gnome screensaver
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