Re: Unable to login after screen is locked

["Eric Magutu" <emagutu gmail com>]

hi,
I get the following error messages related to pam

May 29 08:50:16 localhost unix_chkpwd[13713]: check pass; user unknown
May 29 08:50:16 localhost gnome-screensaver-dialog: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:
0.0 r
user= rhost=  user=eric
May 29 08:50:18 localhost gnome-screensaver-dialog: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 r
user= rhost=  user=root
May 29 08:50:26 localhost unix_chkpwd[13724]: check pass; user unknown

On 5/29/07, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:

Hello,

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:53 +0300, Eric Magutu wrote:
> Hi,
> I have devloped a problem with my debian etch gnome. Whenever I lock
> the screen I am unable to log back in. It keeps telling me incorrect
> password no matter which account I use. I have to stop gdm to be able
> to login. Can anyone help me with this problem? It is not a wrong
> passord problem.

any message in /var/log/{message,secure} about
xscreensaver/gnome-screensaver w.r.t. pam ?

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> Regards,
> Eric
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Regards,
Eric