Bug#894892: libkscreenlocker5: The file "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kcheckpass" is NOT existent in the stable package.

[Patrick Franz <deltaone@debian.org>]

Hi Hans,

On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:35:23 +0200 "Hans-J. Ullrich"  
<hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
[...]
> I discovered, that in the bookworm repo in the package
> libscreenlocker5, the mentioned file "kcheckpass" is not existent. Thus
> the above workaround does not work. 
> 
> I also tried to manually copy the file from bullseye with no success
> and suppose, kcheckpass from bullseye is incompatible with bookworm.
> Please repack the lib with the missing file.

The "kcheckpass"-binary was removed from kscreenlocker over a year ago, 
because it was obsolete.
Hence, distributions cannot ship the binary as it is not built anymore.

If you cannot unlock your screen, a simple "It doesn't work" is 
unfortunately not sufficient to debug it. The first thing you can do is to  
create a new user on your system and try to unlock the screen with that 
user.
That will tell you whether something is wrong with the system or just 
with your default user.


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Patrick Franz