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Wednesday, March 7th 2007, 11:42am

Screen saver locks the system

I'm having a problem with KDE 3.3.1 on Solaris 9 where the screen saver completely locks the system up. The only way out is to reboot. I had the problem w/ 3.4.2, but 3.2.2 worked fine. We reverted back to 3.3.1 so we could match w/ RH 4.0 (our home directories are shared across the network).
After invoking the screen saver (manually or by timeout), the prompt comes up asking for the password. I enter it and nothing happens. Any ideas?

Note that this is a version I built myself from the sources (the version provided by Stefan Telman installs into '/opt' and I need it to go to '/usr/local')

An alternative is that I can get xlock to work fine, but I have to manually invoke it. Can I somehow use xlock within the KDE screen saver system?

Thanks

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Wednesday, April 18th 2007, 7:14pm

It could be that your user password and 'su' or root passwords are not the same. Have you tried either one of those?
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