Bug 532901

Summary: gnome-screensaver does not show password dialog when attempting to unlock screen
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: gnome-screensaverAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.4CC: arechenberg, collura, gerald, santtu, tao
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2009-11-04 09:47:53 UTC 
1. upgrade from RHEL 5.3 to RHEL 5.4
2. lock screen 
3. attempt to unlock, no password dialog box

[root@caoconno ~]# uname -r
2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
[root@caoconno ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)
[root@caoconno ~]# rpm -q gnome-screensaver
gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-8.el5


You have to kill gnome-screensaver manually for you to get access.
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2009-11-04 09:48:46 UTC 
Created attachment 367431 [details]
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Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2009-11-04 09:49:35 UTC 
Attached above is the output from 
gnome-screensaver --no-daemon --debug
Comment 4 Andrew Rechenberg 2010-12-21 13:41:08 UTC 
Having the same problem with Fedora 14 x86_64 (pre-upgraded from Fedora 13).  Not sure if I should open a new bug since this bug is related to RHEL.
Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2011-11-03 14:35:47 UTC 
This bug was addressed some time ago.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530309 ***