Lock Screen not unlocking anymore

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tiredofit

Lock Screen not unlocking anymore

Post by tiredofit »

Hello. First time poster here, but well versed in Linux, more so in the shell than a DE. In August enough was enough and I moved over to a shiny new Mint 17 install and am loving it. I wasn't quite sure of where it was going to go, and did some things to the install that bothered me for a few months, so I wiped my machine, recreated an encrypted LUKS/LVM setup and moved to btrfs. I rsynced all of my old files short of /boot and some files in /etc.

Everything seems to be moving at a great pace except for that when my machine idles or the lid gets shut on the unit, cinnamon-screensaver-command -l as well, ithe cinnamon lock screen doesn't want to accept my password. I've tried changing my password a few times with no success, but oddly enough if I select "switch user" I can log back into my old session
Can anyone shed light onto why this would be happening?



LM17 w/Cinnamon 2.2
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Vincent3

Re: Lock Screen not unlocking anymore

Post by Vincent3 »

I've had 17 Cinnamon installed for only a day and had almost the same issue - except that the screen lock asks for a password for users who don't have a password (I tried the admin password, using the user name as password, and leaving it blank, none of which works). Switching user is the only workaround I've found.

Is disabling the screen lock an option for you?
tiredofit

[SOLVED] Lock Screen not unlocking anymore

Post by tiredofit »

Sorry, I've been meaning to posted this has been solved. Somewhere along the lines my permissions got all strange in /etc.

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sudo chgrp shadow shadow 
Did the trick.

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