screensaver login password failed with correct password

Hi, since last time I cp /etc/passwd passwd.old Later used vipw deleted one un-existed user entry. I thought something wrong, so I mv passwd,old passwd back. Anyway, later I use vipw again deleted that entry. But the problem showed up: for ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2012 - 8:20 AM ET

Bug#690017: task-gnome-desktop: first login on minimal "Graphical Desktop Environment" system yields "Oh no! Something has gone wrong."

This is a multi-part MIME message sent by reportbug. MIME-Version: 1.0 Package: task-gnome-desktop Version: 3.13 Severity: important I just did an install from the nightly debian-installer, in text mode, choosing default options all the way up ...

Message posted on the October 8th, 2012 - 10:00 PM ET

Bug#671632: gnome-session: "Something has go wrong" at the first login of a fresh user account

Package: gnome-session Version: 3.4.1-1 Severity: important After updating I have had a problem with my old account, so I've created a new account to check some things. I've created a new account and I've tried to login up, but I've got the ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2012 - 10:20 AM ET

Bug#513128: xserver-xorg-core: X server crashes every time when gnome-screensaver starts (after recent upgrade)

Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.4.2-10 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss All results of my work get lost and all running programs get killed when the X server crashes. It has crashed many times until I figured out ...

Message posted on the January 26th, 2009 - 1:40 PM ET

Bug#606493: gnome-screensaver: Fails to authenticate users with NIS on amd64

Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 2.30.0-2 Severity: important After upgrading my machine to amd64, users can no longer unlock the screen locked by gnome-screensaver. The dialog always says 'wrong password'. The system uses NIS, the NIS server ...

Message posted on the December 9th, 2010 - 2:10 PM ET

Bug#522899: gnome-screensaver: Fails to activate when on battery

Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 2.22.2-2 Severity: normal Gnome screensaver fails to activate when on battery, works fine when on power. Instead of the chosen screensaver (e.g. popsquares) activating, it would simply blank screen ...

Message posted on the April 7th, 2009 - 5:50 AM ET

Bug#567318: gnome-screensaver causes X session crash

Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 2.28.0-2 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss Hello, I use a laptop with an external LCD screen connected on the VGA port. The two screens don't have the same native resolution but when the ...

Message posted on the January 28th, 2010 - 8:10 AM ET

Gnome, the screensaver and the lock screen background

Hi. I did find a few bits of information that weren't pertinent, much less solve the problem, but here it is: How is the locked screen background manipulated for color or background image? This is the screen where you come out of screensaver mode ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2011 - 2:50 AM ET

Bug#544373: gnome-screensaver: Kernel freeze / Keyboard input stops being accepted

Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 2.22.2-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software *** Please type your report below this line *** I was able to isolate problems mentioned in bugs #415147, #452121, (422430) to be caused by ...

Message posted on the August 30th, 2009 - 10:10 PM ET

Bug#580923: a locked gnome-screensaver can be circumvented by inserting a pluggable media

Package: gnome-screensaver Version: 2.30.0-1 Severity: grave Tags: security when I plug in a usb stick the login window is put in the background and I see the desktop and can interact with it. so to reproduce: 1) lock screen 2) insert usb stick ...

Message posted on the May 9th, 2010 - 5:20 PM ET

Bug#681682: gnome-control-center: uid < 1000 ignored in User Accounts; should honour /etc/login.defs UID_MIN

Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:3.4.2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** I've just upgraded to wheezy from stable, and my user no longer appears in the greeter nor in ...

Message posted on the July 15th, 2012 - 11:00 AM ET

Screensaver starts then stops

I am using XP home edition. When I installed one of the MS updates about 2-3 months ago something happened to my screensaver. It correctly starts at the specified time. Then about 5-10 minutes later it goes to the login screen and stays there ...

Message posted on the June 18th, 2009 - 5:21 PM ET

Bug#555105: libc6: segfault when ctrl-alt-F1 and attempt to login

Package: libc6 Version: 2.10.1-5 Severity: important When I pull up a terminal screen with Ctrl-Alt-Fx and attempt to login (root or regular user) I get the following: "login: segfault at bc43c704 ip b7f4c2da sp bfbeb1dc error 4 in ...

Message posted on the November 8th, 2009 - 9:00 AM ET

Bug#645920: gnome: Timeout on Gnome login (30s delay)

Package: gnome Version: 1:2.30+11 Severity: important It takes about 30s after a GDM-Login until the Desktop is shown. In the .xsession-errors, the two lines are interesting: x-session-manager[16416]: WARNING: Application ...

Message posted on the October 19th, 2011 - 2:00 PM ET