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LM22.1 will not accept password when waking up and switching user
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Description
Distribution
LM22.1
Package version
cinnamon 6.4
Graphics hardware in use
intel
Frequency
Always
Bug description
I press the spacebar and the system comes back from sleep and I see my normal lock screen but I clicked on the switch user icon and then selected my user. After entering my password that is accepted, it then blanked the screen and popped up an authentication box and that dialog would not accept my password. I just had to hit reset on the PC.
Steps to reproduce
system in suspend and choose switch user icon
Expected behavior
switch user and allow normal login
Additional information
Jan 21 07:16:17 office-pc-amd systemd[1]: Failed to start fwupd-refresh.service - Refresh fwupd metadata and update motd.
Jan 21 07:16:17 office-pc-amd bluetoothd[973]: profiles/sap/server.c:sap_server_register() Sap driver initialization failed.
Jan 21 07:16:17 office-pc-amd bluetoothd[973]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
Jan 21 07:16:17 office-pc-amd bluetoothd[973]: Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)
Jan 21 07:16:28 office-pc-amd lightdm[28111]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
Jan 21 07:16:35 office-pc-amd lightdm[28239]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jan 21 07:16:35 office-pc-amd cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper[27767]: pam_unix(cinnamon-screensaver:auth): conversation failed
Jan 21 07:16:35 office-pc-amd cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper[27767]: pam_unix(cinnamon-screensaver:auth): auth could not identify password for [jim]
Jan 21 07:16:55 office-pc-amd cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper[27768]: pam_unix(cinnamon-screensaver:auth): conversation failed
Jan 21 07:16:55 office-pc-amd cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper[27768]: pam_unix(cinnamon-screensaver:auth): auth could not identify password for [martha]
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the suspend, switch-user, and login sequence, then inspect the cinnamon-screensaver PAM helper and the LightDM log entries shown in the report. Compare the authentication flow with the listed conversation failures; done means switching users after resume accepts the password and reaches the desktop without requiring a reset.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, linux
- Domain
- authentication, desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100