[SOLVED] Xscreensaver locks me out

3rensho · 02-15-2020, 11:25 PM

After the latest updates to _pam packages, Xscreensaver locks me out of the system when it kicks in - there is no place to enter my pw. Did I over look something?

rworkman · 02-15-2020, 11:41 PM

All of the pam security modules moved, so the running processes are doing exactly what they *should* do. Log in on a console window as root, kill xscreensaver, go back to the X session, and logout. Now you'll notice that your display manager is going crazy, so go back to your root shell in the console window, do "init 3" and then "init 4" and oh heck, it will just be easier to reboot :-)

3rensho · 02-15-2020, 11:46 PM

Thanks for the tip. I did reboot ;-)