Less likely, but if the system is using Kerberos authentication check your PAM configuration. If your display manager knows to authenticate with Kerberos but xscreensaver doesn't, I've seen this happen after the initial ticket expires.<div>
<br></div><div>Avery<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>is it xscreensaver on one specific to gnome or kde? The gnome one has been flakey on occasion with passwords.</p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p></p><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 2, 2010 9:19 PM, "Geoffrey" <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com" target="_blank">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>For whatever reason, every now and again, xscreensaver goes brain dead<br>
and won't accept my password. I have to switch to a virtual terminal,<br>
kill the process, then go back to X and restart it.<br>
<br>
Anyone have any idea why it does that?<br>
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