KDE 3.1.2 screen-saver issue

[George Mochrie]

On Sunday 13 July 2003 12:32 am, Sri wrote:
> Hi folks,
>       I had upgraded my KDE from 3.0 to 3.1.2 by compiling from source
> (used Konstruct). But, now, I see something very interesting. The
> screen-saver would not accept my login-password to unlock the screen. I
> changed the screen-saver and again, it wouldn't accept my password ( I am
> pretty sure that I typed it correctly, checked if the caps-lock was
> accidently enabled...).
>
> This issue had forced me to hard-reboot the system twice and damage my root
> file-system and had to fix it everytime I reboot.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem? It would be nice if someone can provide me a
> solution to this seemingly trivial thing.

I had this problem too. The cause on my system turned out to be PAM related. 
check your /etc/pam.d/kde file if you have one. I had to comment out the 
line: 

auth      requisite pam_securetty.so

as X isn't running on a tty listed in /etc/securetty.

Of course the caus on your system may be something completely different :)

Hope this helps,
-- 
George Mochrie
aka Drasil
ICQ# 84423409

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