Bug 14913

Summary:	Impossible to unlock Plasma 5 session
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jüri Ivask <jyri2000>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, yltsparri
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Jüri Ivask 2014-12-30 10:47:09 CET

Description of problem: It is impossible to unlock Plasma 5 session


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Lock Plasma 5 screen or let the time go past setting "Lock screen after ..."
2. Try to unlock the session by inserting password etc
3. Unlocking fails
4. Additionally unlock screen states that Caps Lock is on although it isn't 


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Jüri Ivask 2014-12-30 10:50:28 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 1 Ãlo Parri 2014-12-31 10:13:47 CET

I have Plasma 5 self built with kdesrc-build and had unlocking problems too.

Solution for me was:

#pam permissions, kcheckpass needs file named 'kde'
ln -s /etc/pam.d/kcheckpass /etc/pam.d/kde

#suid root for kcheckpass
chmod  +u /opt/kf5/lib64/libexec/kcheckpass

This is probably not done with Mageia packages.
With Mageia packages the last line should be
chmod  +u /usr/libexec/kcheckpass

CC: (none) => yltsparri

Comment 2 Jüri Ivask 2015-01-01 20:05:39 CET

Thanks for the info, Ãlo!
In my case I had neither kcheckpass nor kde files in /etc/pam.d

Found a upstream bug about that: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337470 , however its status is unconfirmed.

But creating a /etc/pam.d/kde file with the content suggested there helped and I can unlock the screen now.

However the lock screen still states incorrecty that Caps Lock is on. Fortunately it does not affect the unlocking process...

Comment 3 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-01-04 22:39:36 CET

please test new rpms for the unlocking issue

Comment 4 Jüri Ivask 2015-01-05 08:48:07 CET

Updated to plasma-workspace-5.1.2-6.mga5
Unfortunately this made it again impossible to unlock the screen.
Running /usr/libexec/kcheckpass just hangs.
Renamed new kde file in /etc/pam.d to kde.old and created again a new one according to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337470 and the
/usr/libexec/kcheckpass started to ask for password and accepted that and also screen unlocking worked again (with that incorrect Caps Lock statement)

Comment 5 Sander Lepik 2015-01-09 11:20:55 CET

Fixed typo introduced in r808414. Reopen if still broken.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => mageia
Resolution: (none) => FIXED