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Re: kcheckpass fails to authenticate



On Fridayen den  9 March 2001 18:02, Stephen Uhlhorn wrote:
> This morning I upgraded the kde packages that were available
> for potato. After I locked my screen in KDE, I was unable to
> unlock it (log back in). I then killed the x-server and tried
> to log back in thru kdm...no dice. KDM would not let any users
> log in...even root. There were no problems loggin in to a
> normal shell however. I found this in /var/log/auth.log:
>
> Mar  9 10:30:19 cartman kcheckpass[499]: authentication failure
> for user uhlhorn [uid 1000]
>
> Anyone know what happened?


I never got KDM to work, it never accepted the password. But then 
I have been using KDE from CVS, so I account such problems to 
some kind of debianization that I miss out not doing it the 
debian way.

Right now I am trying to recompile the whole thing, this time 
using the debian rules, and thus putting everything into the 
debian places. Not that easy, since the sources appears to be 
more updated than the debian rules, and sometimes have different 
opinions. I somehow assume that debian changes goes back into the 
KDE CVS tree.
Sometimes there is a debian.diff file in the debian directory, 
which I apply. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not.

qt-copy is extra horrible to compile from sources the debian way. 

If I find any problems, is there anyone interesting in knowing 
what I did to make it work, or what failed? Note this does not 
relate to the built .deb files, but to rebuilding them from KDE 
CVS sources.

-- Karolina



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