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BigDragon

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Thursday, April 21st 2005, 10:58am

Problem with kdesktop_lock

Hi everbody...

i have installed KDE 3.4 on a Solaris 9.0 Sparc-Maschine.
It works fine, but i have a little problem:

If a user (as root the same problem) lock the screen and if he would unlock the screen he get this message:

Cannot unlock the session because the authentication system feiled to work; you must kill kdesktop_lock (pid%1) manually.

I search know 2 days, but i cant fix the problem.

Can sombody hep my?

Thx

BigDragon
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one day...nobody use MICROSOFT.

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Saturday, November 12th 2005, 1:18am

RE: Problem with kdesktop_lock

i'm experiëncing the same problem after upgrading to KDE 3.4, but i'm using Gentoo Linux...

I've just opened a topic about it @ http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2870926.html, you might want to keep an eye on it (as i will keep an eye on this one), our problems might have the same cause :)
:)

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "NoBody" (Nov 12th 2005, 1:19am)

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Sunday, December 4th 2005, 1:27pm

I had this problem today after building KDE3.5 from source.

Here's the fix for this :)

Locate the file kcheckpass (it will be in your kde directory under /bin/ ).

Give it root ownership (chown root.root kcheckpass )
Then SUID (chmod 4755 kcheckpass )

Now you will be able to unlock the session again.

Nick

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Sunday, December 4th 2005, 4:12pm

Well it where not the filerights or ownerships that where wrong, after reading your post i checked and saw that i didn't have a kcheckpass binary at all :rolleyes:

So i checked Gentoo's portage for a kcheckpass package and it wasn't installed at all... After emerging it, the problem was solved :D

Thanks for your support Lethe :)

I'm curious if your post will solve the problem for BigDragon as well :)
:)

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Sunday, December 4th 2005, 10:36pm

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Originally posted by NoBody
Well it where not the filerights or ownerships that where wrong, after reading your post i checked and saw that i didn't have a kcheckpass binary at all :rolleyes:


:tongue: No wonder it didn't work for you! I think the SUID is the fix for the first poster though.

Nick

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Saturday, June 10th 2006, 2:50pm

I have similar problem with kdesktop_lock on SuSE Linux 10.0. Setting +s bit on kcheckpass resolved the problem.

Thanks for sugesting the solution.