Bugzilla – Bug 675377
Fingerprint based authentication hangs when coming from screen-lock / stand by
Last modified: 2013-11-23 20:02:01 UTC
I have a Dell Latitude D630 with a finger print reader. I activated it in Yast->Hardware and in User management. It works ok when logging in after reboot, but if the screen got locked (by me or after 15 mins), then it will only ask for password (not the fingerprint) and after inputting the right password it hangs indefinitely validating something. The workaround for me was to go to a screen console and 'kill -9' the process "/usr/bin/X :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-xxxxx/database -nolisten -tcp vtx". After disabling the fingerprint reader (in yast->hardware) everything went back to normal.
Fred, just wondering if you have any idea about that? (since you played with fingerprint readers)
it would be better to check in /var/log/auth.log the way we handle fingerprint (pam_fp) is known to be racy, IIRC, we should try to switch to fprintd (but it won't be in 11.4).
Same happens here with a Compaq 8510p and AuthenTec AES2501 yast2-fingerprint-reader-2.20.0-1.6.x86_64 openSUSE 11.5 M0
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