Bug 190556 - kdesktop_lock cannot authenticate
Summary: kdesktop_lock cannot authenticate
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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: 190567 190648 190713 190767 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-03 15:22 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-05-04 10:13:49 UTC
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Description Orion Poplawski 2006-05-03 15:22:40 UTC 
Description of problem:

kdesktop_lock cannot authenticate users and so must be manually killed to unlock
a session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.5.2-0.3.fc5

How reproducible:
everytime
Comment 1 Robert Glover 2006-05-03 19:54:41 UTC 
I don't know how helpful this is, but when running kdesktop_lock from the
command-line (with kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5), I get the following:

$ kdesktop_lock --forcelock
WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QStringList' error
WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QString' error
WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QStringList' error
WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QString' error
Comment 2 Keunwoo Lee 2006-05-04 01:27:57 UTC 
I can reproduce.  I suspect this is related to the removal 
of /usr/bin/kcheckpass from kdebase.  See: 
 
rpm -q --filesbypkg kdebase | grep /usr/bin/kcheckpass 
 
This is a curious absence, because /etc/pam.d/kcheckpass is still there.
Comment 3 Brian Daniels 2006-05-04 02:52:29 UTC 
Also happening here on an x86_64 system.  It gives the following error for good
or bad passwords:

Cannot unlock the session because the authentication system failed to work.  
you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid) manually.

Worked fine before kde update.
Comment 4 Than Ngo 2006-05-04 10:13:49 UTC 
it seems a packacking bug in kdebase that kcheckpass was not included in this
version. I will push new kdebase packacge in FC5 update ASAP which resolves this
issue. Thanks for your report.
Comment 5 Than Ngo 2006-05-04 10:17:14 UTC 
*** Bug 190567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Than Ngo 2006-05-04 10:18:51 UTC 
*** Bug 190648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Than Ngo 2006-05-04 21:18:26 UTC 
*** Bug 190713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Than Ngo 2006-05-05 09:03:43 UTC 
*** Bug 190767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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