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  1. Bug #270781
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 270781

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Chris Weiss (cweiss) wrote : Re: unix_chkpwd crashes on gnome-screensaver

I am having this issue on a lucid x64 install upgraded from a properly working karmic. I have another lucid x64 clean install that does not have the issue.

the only information I have is this in my auth.log. can I enable some extended login somehow?
Apr 18 16:27:29 cw gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): unix_chkpwd abnormal exit: 11
Apr 18 16:27:31 cw gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): unix_chkpwd abnormal exit: 11
Apr 18 16:27:31 cw gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=chrisw

there's 2 because i tried 2 times to make sure I didn't typo, then switched to console and logged in to kill gnome-screensaver. This also isn't failing intermittently, it fails every time, even when manually locking the screen.