[ale] xscreensaver problem

Avery Ceo avery.ceo at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 03:21:06 EST 2010


Less likely, but if the system is using Kerberos authentication check your
PAM configuration.  If your display manager knows to authenticate with
Kerberos but xscreensaver doesn't, I've seen this happen after the initial
ticket expires.

Avery

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> is it xscreensaver on one specific to gnome or kde? The gnome one has been
> flakey on occasion with passwords.
>
> On Feb 2, 2010 9:19 PM, "Geoffrey" <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>
> For whatever reason, every now and again, xscreensaver goes brain dead
> and won't accept my password.  I have to switch to a virtual terminal,
> kill the process, then go back to X and restart it.
>
> Anyone have any idea why it does that?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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