Hi folks,
I just installed slock, and found that it couldn't disable the
out-of-memory killer for itself, so wouldn't run (presumably it
would have failed later through not being able to read the shadow
file, too). This was because I installed it in a directory in my
$HOME using "make install"
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> Separately to this, slock seems to exit (without prompt) after about
> 0.3s after I run it, unless I move the mouse or hit the keyboard
> directly after starting it. Has anyone else seen this? I could look
> into it more, but wonder if I am
Quoth Dimitris Papastamos:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > Separately to this, slock seems to exit (without prompt) after about
> > 0.3s after I run it, unless I move the mouse or hit the keyboard
> > directly after starting it. Has anyone else seen this? I could look
Quoth Nick:
> Quoth Dimitris Papastamos:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > > Separately to this, slock seems to exit (without prompt) after about
> > > 0.3s after I run it, unless I move the mouse or hit the keyboard
> > > directly after starting it. Has anyone else se
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> Quoth Dimitris Papastamos:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > > Separately to this, slock seems to exit (without prompt) after about
> > > 0.3s after I run it, unless I move the mouse or hit the keyboard
> > > dire
Quoth Dimitris Papastamos:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > Quoth Dimitris Papastamos:
> > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > > > Separately to this, slock seems to exit (without prompt) after about
> > > > 0.3s after I run it, unless I move the
Heyho Nick,
Nick wrote:
> Ideally slock should always be owned by the root user, so that it can disable
> the oom lock. I wonder what the right solution is here, as obviously one can't
> chown a file to be owned by root if one isn't root oneself.
>
> One option would be to add a line like this to
Greetings.
On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:29:55 +0200 Jan Christoph Ebersbach wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> Thank you for the hint. Attached is the patch in git format.
Your patch has been applied to mainline. Thanks for sending it in.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
I propose throwing out all that "standards" crap like shadow files and
so on. There are already multiple ways implemented, whereas others are
missing.
I tried slock on a computer with some crazy network credential system
and entering a password results in segfault when the network has an
outage. It
