xscreensaver and kernel 2.6.x

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>]

I'm trying to find the details on why xscreensaver has some troubles
with the 2.6 kernels.

On my system, something in pam is failing, causing a several seconds
delay when unlocking my screen.

In /var/log/messages, I get this:

Jan 18 17:59:07 daydream xscreensaver(pam_unix)[869]: authentication
failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost= user=shannon
Jan 18 17:59:09 daydream xscreensaver(pam_unix)[869]: authentication
failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=:0.0 ruser= rhost=  user=root

This happens with all 2.6 kernels, and all earlier kernels work fine.

I found a lot of references to problems with pam and the 2.5 and 2.6
kernels, but can't seem to find the details I want.

Any help appreciated.

I don't get lockups, but the delay is annoying, and I hate broken
things.


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