[kde-solaris] KDE 3.5.3 build for Solaris 10

Christopher Dietz bbcore at gmx.net
Thu Jul 13 11:16:53 CEST 2006


Hi,


> Under all these KDEs, I have problems when locking the screen with the
> KDE screensavers. When trying to unlock the screen, I simply get the
> following error message:
>
>   "Cannot unlock the session because the authentication system failed
> to work; you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid ....) manually."

Do you run kcheckpass as normal user? You usually have to set the suid bit 
to get this working.

Btw you can check the authentification system more simply by running
kcheckpass; echo $?
instead of locking the desktop :-)


Regards
Chris


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