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meta-kde package

Lock screen doesn't accept password

Bug #26184 reported by Jochen Jansen
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #26175: Can't unlock session. Edit Remove
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meta-kde (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

When trying to unlock a locked screen, the correct entered password is *not*
recognized. At a german kubuntu-community-site are several reports on this
issue. Additionally, bugs.kde.org (see link above) has reports on this. Seems
that kde has to built using a --shadow prefix. What can users do? Maybe an
updated package with a so built KDE through apt-repository would help.
Anyway, thanks for that great distribution!

http://bugs.kde.org/simple_search.cgi?id=lock%20password: http://bugs.kde.org/simple_search.cgi?id=lock%20password

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Fred Chu (zhuzhu) wrote :

yeah, I get the same bug.

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

Is this for the first user (the one you created during install) or for user created later?
I have similar problem, but only with users created afterwards. See bug 30301

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Luka Renko (lure) wrote :

I have rechecked with other (first) user and it also do not allow unlock. I have also tried to login with GNOME and gnome-screensaver have same problem, therefore I suspect this is general Ubuntu issue.
More info in bug 26175

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Nicholas Allen (nick-allen) wrote :

I have this problem too! Very annoying. If I close my laptop lid the screen is locked and there is no way to unlock it except to kill the X server.

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teaker1s (teaker1s) wrote :

I cured mine by reselecting keyboard both in gnome and
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and renaming iceauthority to backup so a new one is created.

It would appear the bug is caused by keyboard config either in gnome or xorg

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hadrian (hindimax) wrote :

I've found a workaroubnd - maybe not very nice & secure:
chmod +s /usr/bin/kcheckpass

~ andi

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hadrian (hindimax) wrote :

I've found a workaround - maybe not very nice & secure:
chmod +s /usr/bin/kcheckpass

~ andi

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