[CentOS] CentOS 5, gnome-screensaver and password amnesia?

Mark mhullrich at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 00:58:53 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've built some CentOS 5.5 64-bit systems straight off the DVD, full
> installs, and the Gnome screen lock (manually invoked or automatically
> via the gnome-screensaver) does not allow the user to unlock the
> screen.  The only fix appears to be ctrl-alt-F<1 - 5> then have the
> user log into the tty session, type pkill -f gnome-screensaver, log
> out, then ctrl-alt-f7 to return to X.
>
I'm not seeing anything like this - my screensaver unlocks properly
every time.  Can you give more details?

Mark



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