Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 573570
keyboard layout in gnome-screensaver is incorrect
Last modified: 2012-08-16 16:08:14 EDT
Description of problem: I use two keyboard layouts - USA and CZE. When gnome-screensaver shows up, it displays a keyboard layout, that is set, so you can type password with correct layout. However, the layout that is shown is often wrong. This mainly happens after hibernation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-1.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Often. Steps to Reproduce: Not exactly sure, but try to setup a secondary keyboard layout and let the g-s start a few times or hibernate a resume. When you type the password and system says it is incorrect (g-s is usually showing USA layout, but layout is set to CZE), just hit your keyboard modifier, g-s is still showing the USA, but this time it is correct. When you are logged in, start System/Lock screen and see g-s is showing CZE layout, while underlaying gnome has USA.
Today this happened to me again (on F13 now - switching version). I am not able to login. gnome-screensaver dialog shows keyboard USA, until I hit keyboard modifier, while it still shows layout USA I am now able to login. Looking around I found this message in /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2055): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Error enumerating temporary authorizations: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop. PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateTemporaryAuthorizations() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority at name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine session the caller is in Not sure it this is related however. At this time secure log says: ay 21 16:13:41 mej unix_chkpwd[4085]: password check failed for user (covex) May 21 16:13:41 mej gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=500 euid=500 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=covex May 21 16:13:41 mej gnome-screensaver-dialog: gkr-pam: the password for the login keyring was invalid.
Changeing to F14 as this is still true. One can try that keyboard layout is indicated wrong in the field "Leave a message".
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