screensaver does not unlock

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated gnome 2.16 to 2.18. After remembering that the system had to 
> have its hostname<->IP mapping available (I did move gnome into a jail 
> at the same time) it was even fast to start.
> 
> Previously I had a custom install of gnome (read: I did remove some 
> ports from the meta port which I didn't liked). Now I installed the 
> complete gnome2-lite and as such I see the screensaver for the first 
> time. It's nice. The bad part is: I can't unlock with my password (or 
> with the root password). As I not only want to watch the screensaver in 
> action, I would be pleased if someone could tell me how to solve this. 
> It does not only behave like this in the jailed desktop, it also behaves 
> like this on my laptop where gnome is not jailed.

There is a bug with g-s and OpenPAM in that g-s will not work with PAM 
modules that require root access.  The workaround is to use other PAM 
modules, or rebuild g-s without PAM support (this is the default).

Joe


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