KDE Lock Screen Wont Unlock

Hi - I have the most aggravating problem. On my RHEL 5.2 w/s using gnome (or KDE), if you select "lock screen" from the pulldown and then try to unlock the screen with your password you logged in successfully with in the first place, it comes back shaking it's head INCORRECT PASSWORD. I did some digging and the /var/log/secure file is spitting out:

gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=500 euid=500 tty=0.0 ruser= rhost= user=username

Then below that also:

gnome-screensaver-dialog: pam_unix(gnome-screensaver:auth): auth could not identify password for [username]

I find this is happening on a few of my other RHEL systems too: RHEL 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5.

Help!

I am using Slackware 14.1, with the KDE desktop environment.

How do I add the option "Empty Trash Bin" to the trash bin icon that is shown in the command line at the bottom of the screen? If I right-click the icon I only see options "Trashcan Settings" (which does not offer what I want!) and "Unlock Widgets".

I currently empty the trash bin by left-clicking on it and using Konqueror.

Hi Guys,

I just installed Ubuntu 14.0 LTS...I get the following message:

"Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)"

When I issue the following command:

"sudo apt-get install openssh-server"

Arch linux, recent installation, Thunderbird has been working well so far.

FWIW, I have Thunderbird running in two different OS's on a multiboot machine; both of them have their mail-folders and address-book entries sym-linked to a data partition, a system that has been working well for me for a year or two.

Just started happening earlier today... some of my folders I can click on, but clicking on others either just brings up a blank pane, or the mouse cursor changes to a rotating/buffering cursor, and if I move the mouse around the screen, it "whites-out" the message listing in the pane, observable in the horrible-quality video referenced below. The messages themselves don't seem to be affected, I can access the same content from another OS on the same machine. If it means anything at all, the two folders that *do* open normally when I click on them are the two folders with the smallest number of messages stored in them, but *none* of them are storing ridiculous amounts of messages. (Nor am I using more than a trivial percentage of available disk space.) The "buffering" cursor will continue indefinitely, but returns to normal when I click again on one of the two folders still acting normally.

View My Video

Does this behaviour look remotely familiar to anyone?

I installed Linux Mint but I can't see the taskbar to open menus,firefox or anything. When I hover my mouse in the bottom right corner the date pops up, so I think everything is there but I just can't see or click on anything. The only icons on my desktop are the Home and computer icons and they are barely on the screen but still visible. I'm hoping there is a way to adjust the screen ratio to show the whole screen. Also on web pages the "close tab x" is off the screen and out of range for my mouse to click but I was able to drag the page down to get to it.
I was able to make the taskbar icons larger, now I can see the tops of the icons so I at least know they are there.

I was copying the contents of a flash drive to a folder. In the middle of it I got an error message:

'Error splicing file: input/output error'

and then it said 'do you want to skip or retry?' And the "all" button was there too. Anyway, I skipped. When I checked the folder, all my data seemed to be there.

Do you think it was?

I mean, what are the implications of the error message and of my "skipping" it?

Next up, when I looked at the contents of my flash drive all the folders and files have a lock icon on them. I can open the files but I can't edit them. And no, the lock switch on my flash drive is not pressed.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

in a linux mint installation should there be a /run directory?

Code:

 > ls /run
acpid.pid               initramfs           samba
acpid.socket            kerneloops.pid      sdp
alsa                    lock                sendsigs.omit.d
apache2                 mdm.pid             shm
avahi-daemon            mlocate.daily.lock  systemd
console                 motd.dynamic        tor
ConsoleKit              mount               udev
console-kit-daemon.pid  mysqld              udisks2
crond.pid               network             upstart-file-bridge.pid
crond.reboot            NetworkManager      upstart-socket-bridge.pid
cups                    plymouth            upstart-udev-bridge.pid
dbus                    pm-utils            user
dirmngr                 pppconfig           utmp
dirmngr.pid             resolvconf
gdm_socket              rsyslogd.pid

Hello everyone,

I am not a real n00b at linux but this question is kinda newbisch: I disabled a password for my profile and now i am trying to use sudo but I'm asked to enter a password. I have tried any possible password but I can't unlock it. Please Help!

I own a brandless PC with an Intel Celeron 3.06Ghz processor.
An Intel motherboard
The OS on this PC is Elementary OS Luna

Again please help me.

Very Kind Regards,
mrjenskay

I need to be able to create new user accounts and make sure they're forced to reset their password upon first login, also if they don't log in within 4 days of the account creation their account must automatically lock. How do I accomplish this?

thank you.

when i turn my PC on that says ubuntu,recovery and bios i think i click on ubuntu then get a black screen with a blinking cursa tonight i typed in start x and it loaded PC worked how it should but why doesn't it go straight to the page were i put my password in, i should get ubuntu with dots underneath, then the screen to put my password in but i don't and if i shut my PC down it takes longer then i cant get internet and i have to keep returning to the page and click ubuntu eventually it boots up my friend suggested i type start x on the black screen which i did tonight i am aware its probley something i did when i first loaded ubuntu os i had the PC built for me with no os onit because i wanted a fresh linux/ubuntu systen