Hi, if I try to unlock the screen after running xflock4 by an fbpanel menu entry or from command line, validation of the password fails. The language settings are en_US.utf8 The keyboard layout is German. However, the keyboard layout seems not to be related to the issue. On Tue, 2019-02-12 at 07:22 +0100, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote:
Op ma 11 feb. 2019 19:14 schreef Ralf Mardorf:
After running xflock4 I can't unlock the screen anymore. I suspect that this is related to the pambase update. [...]
Should I fix it myself or is a bug report within reason?
Give it a try first; if it works with a correct pam file in place: it's a packaging bug. OTOH, it could be a bug in your config, in that case a bug report is probably unnecessary.
I successfully used xflock4 for years. It stopped working this year. It is/was not used with Xfce4. I'm running the openbox window manager without a desktop environment. After skimming /usr/share/doc/Linux-PAM/index.html I first tested: $ cat /etc/pam.d/xflock4 #%PAM-1.0 auth include system-auth account include system-auth password include system-auth session include system-auth Since I'm using lightdm, which optional depends on accountsservice, which is required by cinnamon-screensaver, I then tested a copy from the cinnamon-screensaver's config: $ cat /etc/pam.d/xflock4 #%PAM-1.0 auth include system-auth auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so account include system-auth password include system-auth session include system-auth Both don't solve the issue, but they might be completyl wrong ;). FWIW I never run cinnamon-screensaver or another screensaver, depending on the work I'm doing, I enable screen blanking without locking the screen, or never let the screen take a rest at all. I used xflock4 on demand. For the moment I migrated to slock, which does work without an issue, but unfortunately doesn't provide a clock, one of the features xflock4 does provide. Now I wonder which of my configs might have become buggy, that xflock4 stopped working properly. Regards, Ralf