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Description of problem: I lock my screen with the rightmost top button menu "Lock screen". Now trying to unlock fails because my password is not accepted. But if I try to switch user to my own UID and then entering the password, it is accepted, and the (old) session is reopened. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-2.91.91-1.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login into gnome-shell 2.Lock screen as described 3.Try to unlock the screen Actual results: password is not accepted, screen remains locked Expected results: screen is unlocked Additional info:
Contents of /var/log/secure in this situation: Mar 16 08:43:37 eule unix_chkpwd[3983]: check pass; user unknown Mar 16 08:43:42 eule unix_chkpwd[3984]: check pass; user unknown Mar 16 08:43:42 eule unix_chkpwd[3984]: password check failed for user (backes) Mar 16 08:43:42 eule gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=500 euid=500 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=backes
Problem solved: /bin/su had no s-bit. After adding the s-bit to /bin/su, unlocking runs perfectly. I can't say why that bit was missing :-(