GNU bug report logs - #29211
XScreenSaver does not recognise password

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>

Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>
Cc: 29211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29211: XScreenSaver does not recognise password
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:35:05 +0100

Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de> skribis:

> You are right. `type -P xscreensaver' returns
> `/home/diego/.guix-profile/bin/xscreensaver'.  And if i run
> `/run/setuid-programs/xscreensaver &' instead of `xscreensaver &'
> everything works as expected. 
>
> Apparently my setup should never have worked in the first place.  The
> fact that it did until about two weeks ago led me to think this was a
> bug.

Heheh.  So all you have to do is ‘guix package -r xscreensaver’.

Thanks for confirming!

Ludo’.
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