sbin/unix_chkpwd is setGID shadow, but /etc/shadow was owned by root.root
In my case, /etc/shadow had read permissions only for root, and not for the 
group, and so unix_chkpwd could not check the password.  This is now working 
correctly after I did:
sudo chmod 440 /etc/shadow

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gdm should add symlink to /var/run/gdm_socket during ugrades to prevnet the 
sceensaver from hanging if no logout has happened
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/76632
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