In xubuntu, Xscreensaver login does not recognize the password with ascii characters

[Fabio Marconi]

Hello
Resuming from suspend the xscreensaver login window is proposed, but when I insert the right password it isn't recognized and the login window appear again.
**Following is no more present**
(If i click on new login button, i'm redirected to the first login screen and the password is detected, but immediately after is present again the xscreensaver login window.
If I insert again the same password it isn't recognized, if I click on new login i'm redirected to the first login screen and if I choose reboot or shutdown I'm redirected again to login screen.
No way to have one tty working.)
Only Sysrq to reboot.
Thanks
Fabio

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xscreensaver 5.14-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 18 13:31:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110817)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xscreensaver
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
Package: xscreensaver 5.14-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Tags: oneiric
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Alive and kicking in beta

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Hello Fabio, may you provide the system logs for this? having the auth.log would be pretty useful, Thanks!.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

apport information

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Pedro
at Sep 9 21:49:50 njin kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
rebooted the system for not working login, the error is this:
Sep 9 21:49:06 njin unix_chkpwd[1935]: password check failed for user (njin)
Sep 9 21:49:06 njin xscreensaver: pam_unix(xscreensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=njin
Sep 9 21:49:07 njin xscreensaver[1407]: FAILED LOGIN 1 ON DISPLAY ":0", FOR "njin"
Sep 9 21:49:18 njin unix_chkpwd[1937]: password check failed for user (njin).
The same password, with ascii characters, works at startup.
Thanks
Fabio

[Tom Douglas (t-a-douglas272)]

Same bug on my system, it seems that xscreensaver isn't using the systemwide keyboard layout. If i change my password to something with just letters and numbers it works fine.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Is this the same issue as bug #671923, in which it is fixed in 5.15-1?

[Francoise (framorcha)]

I got the same problem.
This also seems to affect only certain special characters.
I typed my password differently to see what causes the problem:

^_b7*!:;@ is fine for example
while
^_b7*!:;@ç isn't
but
^_b7*!:;@a work !

So I guess xscreensaver has a problem with combinations of special characters, surely a layout problem.

My laptop is an Asus x72j serie and I'm using a fresh install of Xubuntu 11.10.
I hope it will be fixed soon.

[Aleksi-ajp (aleksi-ajp)]

Having the same bug on Xubuntu 11.10, when will the fix arrive to repos?