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ntldr

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Registered: 2017-01-04

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screen locks unable to login back to resume session wrong password

Hey

Yesterday I did something really stupid following a guide sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share} this command did screw up a lot of things in my system breaking sudo and some other things. I though I finally fixed it after few hours of tweaking around but today I noticed when ever I use lock screen option either in my plasma/KDE or XFCE4 which uses xscreensaver it says my password is wrong even tho I'm sure I've typed it correctly it's rather simple. One person suggested in IRC to use i3lock I tested it out but it also failed to login back to session saying the password is wrong.

Only fix I could find is to change the /etc/group to root - <username> permission then it would let me login back to sessions I think I also had to add in line sddm:x:616:<username> to be able to login. and adding same line in /etc/gshadow

maybe this will help little bit

➜ journalctl -b -p err 
Jul 09 11:39:12 Darknet sudo[21022]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Jul 09 11:39:12 Darknet sudo[21022]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [ntldr]

Last edited by ntldr (2017-07-09 08:46:17)

jasonwryan

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Re: screen locks unable to login back to resume session wrong password

Moving to NC...

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adesh

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Re: screen locks unable to login back to resume session wrong password

You need to reinstall filesystem package.

ntldr

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Re: screen locks unable to login back to resume session wrong password

You need to reinstall filesystem package.

Packages (1) filesystem-2017.03-2

Total Installed Size:  0.01 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                                   [###################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                                 [###################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                                      [###################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                                [###################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                                                              [###################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling filesystem                                                                                    [###################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /boot/
filesystem: 700  package: 755
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

I did that put the problem exists still. locking screen = password does not work.

buntolo

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Re: screen locks unable to login back to resume session wrong password

Does this happen also for new users? Try to create another user and see if you've the same issue with lockscreen.

ntldr

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Registered: 2017-01-04

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Re: screen locks unable to login back to resume session wrong password

Does this happen also for new users? Try to create another user and see if you've the same issue with lockscreen.

ya same issue for new users it seems password I set doesn't work when locking screen.