Bug 415741 - Screen unlocking fails after switching to console and back
Summary: Screen unlocking fails after switching to console and back
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-07 15:44 UTC by David Kovalsky
Modified: 2023-09-14 01:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:30:51 UTC
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Description David Kovalsky 2007-12-07 15:44:51 UTC
Description of problem:
After I lock the screen and switch to console (CTRL+ATL+F1), login as root and
go back (ALT+F7), I type the password and get an error unable to login, auth
subsystem failed and I get instructed to kill kdesktop_lock manually.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.5.8-5.fc8, 

How reproducible:
about 80%


Note that I have the finger reader, which I use to login. Some relevant files:

[dkovalsk@kovinek ~]$ cat /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth        required      pam_env.so
auth        sufficient    pam_thinkfinger.so
auth        sufficient    pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth        required      pam_deny.so

account     required      pam_unix.so
account     sufficient    pam_localuser.so
account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account     required      pam_permit.so

password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
password    sufficient    pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_autht
                         ok
password    required      pam_deny.so

session     optional      pam_keyinit.so revoke
session     required      pam_limits.so
session     [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet
                          use_uid
session     required      pam_unix.so


[dkovalsk@kovinek ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
DESKTOP="KDE"



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Lock session 
2. CTRL+ALT+F1, log in as root, echo foo
3. ALT+F7, type your password 

I haven't had any other auth issues except with kdesktop_lock.
Let me know if you need more information to diagnose this problem.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2007-12-07 15:51:26 UTC
funky setup, and steps to reproduce. :)

hopefully, it's only a pam config thing.

Comment 2 Lukáš Tinkl 2007-12-18 09:50:46 UTC
Worked perfectly for me with the same setup (also using ThinkPad fingerprint 
reader to auth).

Comment 3 David Kovalsky 2007-12-20 15:32:03 UTC
Actually for me the problem still persists.

Lukas, can you post your pam config file if there's any difference from mine?

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 08:53:14 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:30:51 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:11:43 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days


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