Bug 16637

Summary:	Mate screen saver will not accept user password to unlock screen
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Atilla ÖNTAŞ <tarakbumba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dvgevers, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Ben McMonagle 2015-08-24 12:07:03 CEST

Description of problem: when system has been idle for some time and screen-saver has activated and turned off the display, moving the mouse or pressing a keyboard key brings up an "input password screen" to unlock the display. the correct number of characters are shown as entered, then "enter" pressed, the screen goes blank and then the same window reappears. control+alt+F2 brings up a tty, entering user and password is accepted and system can be rebooted from the tty.
this is not the xlock password entry GUI.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: everytime after approx 20 min of no use


Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrade Mga5 with Mate, Cinnamon, LXDE, XFCE DEs to Cauldron.
2.added Plasma 5, Stellarium, Google-earth, scanner and attempted to add printer -[failed], and updated system to latest.
3.log into Mate DE and wait about 20 minutes, then attempt to unlock screen.


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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2015-08-24 14:43:50 CEST

@ Atilla

assigning to you, since you maintain Mate.
Note that I haven't tried to reproduce the issue

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => tarakbumba

Comment 2 Dick Gevers 2015-09-04 14:01:07 CEST

ph related to #16488 ?

CC: (none) => dvgevers

Comment 3 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2015-10-19 09:59:31 CEST

I can not reproduce this problem. May be polkit problem occured which hits Mageia 5 ?

Comment 4 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2015-10-19 13:27:08 CEST

Ben, is it still valid with 1.10.2-1.mga6 ?

If it's still valid then would you mind to modify /etc/pam.d/mate-screensaver from:

> # Fedora Core
> auth       include	system-auth
> auth       optional     pam_gnome_keyring.so
> account    include	system-auth
> password   include	system-auth
> session    include	system-auth

to:

> # Fedora Core
> auth       substack	system-auth
> auth       optional     pam_gnome_keyring.so
> account    include	system-auth
> password   include	system-auth
> session    include	system-auth

and re-try?

I think this issue may related to #16825

Comment 5 Ben McMonagle 2015-10-19 20:50:32 CEST

It does not appear to be since last update - fixed by updating something?

closing for now.

thanks Atilla ÃNTAÅ for looking into this

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