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Description of problem: I have a 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader on my Thinkpad T61. I have installed Fedora 11 x86_64 on this laptop and updated the system. Besides updating i have not done anything with the system. Fprint works with my normal user account however it does not work with the root account. Symptoms of the problem are: 1. GNOME`s cpu frequency scaling applet no longer works after i have set up the fingerprint reader for the root user. In its normal behaviour it asks for the root password before it changes the performance profile (default is on demand and i am trying to change it to performance). After i have set up finger print reader when i try to change the performance profile nothing happens - the dialog that prompts for the root password does not apper. 2. GNOME`s packagekit GUI is broken - it works as expected until the window that prompts for the root password should appear. In its normal behaviour i can start the program, search for packages, mark them for installation and the program can resolve the desired package`s dependencies. However when i click on the "Install" button which should supposedly bring the root password prompt the program hangs up and after several minutes crashes. 3. In system-config-services - whenever i try to do something that requires root privileges the action fails without error message. For example the program is supposed to start without asking for root password and to ask for the root password when i actually try to stop or start a service. Normally this is what happens. However after i enable the fingerprint reader for the root account it never asks for root password and the action fails without error. 4. The terminal programs do not seem to be affected - for example i can gain root access or yum even after i have configured the fingerprint reader. For my normal account i configured the fingerprint reader using gnome-about-me and it seems to work fine. For the root user i tried first running gnome-about-me with super user privileges and then i tried running fprintd-enroll with root privileges. Both attempts resulted in the above mentioned symptoms. If i disable the fingerprint authentication for the root user i no longer experience the above mentioned problems and everything seems to work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libfprint-0.1.0-7.pre2.fc11.1 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start system-config-authentication and then checking "Enable Fingerprint Reader Support" in the Authentication tab. 2. Run gnome-about-me with root privileges or run fprintd-enroll. Enroll the finger 3 times as asked and enable the fingerprint authentication for the root user. 3. After disabling the fingerprint authentication for the root user the problems disappear and the system works as expected. Actual results: Unable to gain root access in GUI. The symptom is visible in programs with GUI like system-config-services. Expected results: Should be able to gain root access. Additional info:
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