Screensaver not accepting password after upgrade to KDE 4.4

sithmein · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

Hi all,

Recently I upgraded to KDE 4.4.4 and now I have a strange issue with the screensaver: it does not accept my password any more to unlock. With KDE 4.3.5 it worked without any problems. Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? The only way to unlock is to kill the process as root from the console or to restart the X server.

Cheers,

Thorsten

maltinator · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject:

could the reason for this be a confusion with the keyboard layout?
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sithmein · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

OK, I finally found the problem: /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kcheckpass was missing the setuid bit. This was deliberately avoided in the ebuild by using patch to the makefile. But why???