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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:27 am    Post subject: [solved] kde5 screenlock unlock fails after migrating system Reply with quote

I can't unlock the screenlock in plasma 5 after migrating to new SSD:

I get a new SSD and I want to migrate all the files of my old hard drive to the new SSD instead of installing new system from zero. I ran the command "cp -r -p" and copied all the folders to the new SSD except for /boot, /dev, /mnt, /proc, /sys, /tmp, (I create them manually) preserving all the permissions of each folder, each file. After finishing the copy, I recreated the bootloader.
It works fine when I boot with the new SSD. However, it seems all go well except for unlocking screenlock of plasma5. it says "Authentification Failure". I start my plasma5 by startx. The password is correct, I can access my account. I can run sudo, shutdown and reboot without any problem. Unlocking the screenlock works fine in the old hard drive. Could someone tell me what I missed?

Thank you.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you using systemd, elogind, or consolekit?

Are you able to unlock session from other terminal (Alt+Fn)?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you use startx, then what is in your ~/.xinitrc?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PrSo wrote:
Are you using systemd, elogind, or consolekit?

Are you able to unlock session from other terminal (Alt+Fn)?


I am using consolkit. How can I unlock session from other terminal? what is the command? Thanks
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

asturm wrote:
If you use startx, then what is in your ~/.xinitrc?


Code:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startkde


It worked before
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pd1986 wrote:

I am using consolkit. How can I unlock session from other terminal? what is the command? Thanks


If I remember correctly you have to be root:

Code:
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.SessionUnlock


assumig that X is on session1, to check on what session X is running:
Code:
ck-list-sessions


I took it from topic: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1046566-start-0.html
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PrSo wrote:
pd1986 wrote:

I am using consolkit. How can I unlock session from other terminal? what is the command? Thanks


If I remember correctly you have to be root:

Code:
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.SessionUnlock


assumig that X is on session1, to check on what session X is running:
Code:
ck-list-sessions


I took it from topic: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1046566-start-0.html


it doesn't work. it says unknown method, No such interface on org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" on object at path ......
I am sure that I ran it with right session number.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is really strange.

I haven't use consolekit since a year or so (I am using elogind now), but as I remember correctly this way of unlocking the session was working as expected on my machine.

I have founded full bash script to unlock session on mailing list:

http://readlist.com/lists/gentoo.org/gentoo-user/41/209925.html, which basically does the same as previously mentioned command but IMHO is worth a try.

Maybe you should try to reemerge dbus and consolekit, I think that this could resolve permission problems.

Is there anything in your xorg or session logs that could give us a clue what is going on?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that we have an explanation of this situation.

Please sync portage,update, and check once again if you cannot unlock screenlocker.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aeb1aeca6ee0f499872f9f165a01aacdcc6a1a75
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, completely unrelated.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

asturm wrote:
No, completely unrelated.


Yeah, sorry. My misatke.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pd1986 wrote:
it says unknown method, No such interface on org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" on object at path ......
I am sure that I ran it with right session number.
So you have latest ConsoleKit2 and dbus is actually running?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yamakuzure wrote:
pd1986 wrote:
it says unknown method, No such interface on org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit" on object at path ......
I am sure that I ran it with right session number.
So you have latest ConsoleKit2 and dbus is actually running?

I have checked. both are running but only consolekit 1.2.0 is installed. Right now, I disable the screenlock option so it doesn't bother me too much. If it could be solved it would be better. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore.
In order to unlock switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in and execute the command:

loginctl unlock-sessions

Afterwards switch back to the running session (Ctrl+Alt+F7).

I had the above problem again just now (Gentoo Stable with plasma-meta-5.11.5, openrc-0.34.11 and consolekit-1.2.0) and the following script I launched from TTY1 successfully unlocked the X11 session on TTY7:

Code:
fitzcarraldo@clevow230ss ~ $ cat unlockKDEsession.sh
#!/bin/bash

# Screen locker broken in KDE with ConsoleKit
# See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1046566.html
# and https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1054134.html

# Find which session is locked
session=Session$(ck-list-sessions | grep -B10 "x11-display = ':0" | grep -o -P '(?<=Session).*(?=:)')

# Create Bash script to unlock session
echo "#!/bin/bash" > /unlock.sh
echo "su -c 'dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=\"org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit\" /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/$session org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session.Unlock'" >> /unlock.sh
chmod +x /unlock.sh

# Run Bash script in another TTY
openvt -s -w /unlock.sh

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fwiw, Plasma 5.12* provides a new `ck-unlock-session` script, and in 5.13 upstream seems to have added one out of the box.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
su -
chown root:root /usr/lib64/libexec/kcheckpass
chmod 4755 /usr/lib64/libexec/kcheckpass


helps for my
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't do that.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two days ago I was hit by this issue too. I was migrating from hdd to ssd via "rsync -av ...". After sucessfull reboot when the plasma's screenlocker triggered I was not able to unlock session by entering the correct password for my user.

In "/var/log/auth.log" I have spotted:
Code:
unix_chkpwd[2384]: check pass; user unknown
unix_chkpwd[2384]: password check failed for user (..)
kcheckpass[2365]: pam_unix(kde:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=..
kcheckpass[2365]: Authentication failure for .. (invoked by uid 1000)


In my case it was something with a pam packages. Reemerging them with
Code:
emerge -1 kde-plasma/kwallet-pam sys-auth/pambase sys-libs/pam virtual/pam

and rebooting the netbook solved the problem.

I am using elogind, so I am not 100% sure if this will work for you, but IMHO it is worth a try.

BTW I still wonder what went wrong during rsync tough.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rsync operation lost filecaps on the binary.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:41 pm    Post subject: Re: kde5 screenlock unlock fails Reply with quote

pd1986 wrote:
I ran the command "cp -r -p"
Maybe OT but I do prefer
Code:
cp -ar
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

asturm wrote:
Rsync operation lost filecaps on the binary.


Sorry for the OT but thank you very much astum.

Since i have that old hdd untouched I corrected my mistake (I hope so) by
Code:
cp --attributes-only -ar
on "root" partition. (as toralf suggested).
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PrSo wrote:
I was migrating from hdd to ssd via "rsync -av ...".
That is not enough. You need at least "rsync -avHAX", or you won't get neither xattr nor ACL transported and loose all hardlinks.

And when migrating a HD with a system on it, I'd do this twice with "rsync -avHAXc" on the second run, which will check the checksums of all files.

I know this is a rather paranoid approach, but I've already lost a system by using -av only and not checking afterwards...
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PrSo wrote:
Two days ago I was hit by this issue too. I was migrating from hdd to ssd via "rsync -av ...". After sucessfull reboot when the plasma's screenlocker triggered I was not able to unlock session by entering the correct password for my user.

In "/var/log/auth.log" I have spotted:
Code:
unix_chkpwd[2384]: check pass; user unknown
unix_chkpwd[2384]: password check failed for user (..)
kcheckpass[2365]: pam_unix(kde:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=  user=..
kcheckpass[2365]: Authentication failure for .. (invoked by uid 1000)


In my case it was something with a pam packages. Reemerging them with
Code:
emerge -1 kde-plasma/kwallet-pam sys-auth/pambase sys-libs/pam virtual/pam

and rebooting the netbook solved the problem.

I am using elogind, so I am not 100% sure if this will work for you, but IMHO it is worth a try.

BTW I still wonder what went wrong during rsync tough.


It solves the problem. Thank you.
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