Ubuntu
gnome-screensaver package

  1. Bug #227994
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 227994

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Ah, the reason for me was that /etc/shadow was not in group shadow any more, due to a bug in my backup/restore scripts. What is

  ls -l /etc/shadow

for you? If it is owned by root/root, you need to fix it again with

  sudo chgrp shadow /etc/shadow