ah i think we need to pull in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1683
Ray On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 2:31 PM Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Benjamin, Ray, > > I noticed this problem while dogfooding F34, I'm fully up2date as of today. > > Today's gdm update did help in making the problem more clear. > > What happens is that as soon as I press enter / click my main user in gdm, > the password entry box keeps getting updated (and clearing its content) > every 1 - 2 seconds with a "failed to authenticate with fingerprint" > (or something like that) briefly showing below the password entry box > every time it gets cleared. > > After a non-fixed amount of tries it stops doing this and only then I > can successfully login. The same happens on the lock screen of gnome-shell, > except that there it never stops doing this. > > The "failed to authenticate with fingerprint" is new as of todays > gdm update, before this it was just "failed to authenticate". Now that > I know fprintd is involved I've masked fprintd and that works around this. > > As said I'm running a fully up2date F34 on a Thinkpad X1 carbon 8th gen, > with the "Linux" fingerprint firmware installed by fwupd. I don't think > I have ever enrolled a fingerprint, which might be part of the problem, > but in that case it should really just act as if there is no fingerprint > reader present. > > The login dialog / fprintd should certainly _not_ repeatedly show the > error IMHO even showing it once would be wrong here, but it would be > a big improvement. > > Let me know if you need any logs, want a bugzilla for this, or if there > is anything else which I can do to help debug this. > > Regards, > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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