Re: cannot unlock screensaver (SOLVED)

[Kevin Kempter]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:17, Kurt Wall wrote:
>  On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:46:53PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  > Kevin Kempter wrote:
>  > > I've recently installed FC5, ran the initial yum update and then
>  > > installed the kde.repo to get the latest kde.
>  > >
>  > > I can login fine however once the screen saver starts, (I have it set
>  > > to require passwd after 60 sec) then my password is not recognized to
>  > > unlock. My only option is to start a new session and reboot.
>  >
>  > Bummer, you're now user #2 to report such wierdness.
>
>  Make me #3. I've seen it with Fedora RPMs and kde-redhat RPMs.
>
>  > Please post the contents of your /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver and well as
>
>  Hm. No such file. Wonder if that's the problem?
>
>  > $ rpm -q kdelibs kdebase
>
>  kdelibs-3.5.5-1.6.fc6.i386
>  kdebase-3.5.5-1.5.fc6.i386
>
>  > and anything relavent/interesting from /var/log/messages
>
>  Kurt
>  --
>  Route flapping at the NAP. 


Per the info Rex asked for above I found that I had no /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver 
file only a /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver file. I grabbed a kscreensaver file from 
another FC5 box I have, placed it in the /etc/pam.d directory with 
appropriate ownership/perms based on the xscreensaver file - rebooted and 
presto! I can unlock my screensaver with my passwd again.

Thanks Rex!