Bug 552495

Summary: kscreenlocker can't be unlocked when fingerprint reader is activated
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Alexander Osthof <aosthof>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 2   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Alexander Osthof 2009-11-04 13:26:48 UTC 
In openSUSE 11.2 RC2 I've enabled the fingerprint reader via YaST, which seems to work (no error occurs). Then, I've restarted the machine to see if it works with kdm - it doesn't, but yes, I already found a corresponding bug.

Anyway, I can log in normally by entering user name and password. But after some (idle) time, I encountered a severe problem: when kscreenlocker gets activated, one can't unlock the screen anymore. It says:

"The session is locked. Removing the lock has failed." 

or something like this, exact German wording is:

"Die Sitzung ist gesperrt. Aufheben der Sperrung fehlgeschlagen"

All three buttons (Change user / Unlock / Cancel) are deactivated. So, only way for me to workaround this problem is to go on e.g. tty1 and do a 

"killall -9 kscreenlocker"

So, for a 'normal' user this could get very frustrating...
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2009-11-09 14:04:54 UTC 
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 533189 ***