Bug 184687

Summary: x11/mate: Mate freeze on "change password" option
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: sk8harddiefast
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-gnome (Nobody) <gnome>
Status: In Progress ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: diizzy, kwm, rkoberman, w.schwarzenfeld
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description sk8harddiefast 2013-12-11 14:30:00 UTC 
On System -> Control Center -> About Me -> Change Password when I write my password and press the authentication button then Mate completely Freeze.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-04-13 23:42:29 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-amd64->gnome

Make this a ports PR, guess at which port it applies to, and assign.
Comment 2 Koop Mast freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-07-27 20:27:37 UTC 
There is probably a difference in how some of the password related tools work between linux and freebsd. Working on it.
Comment 3 Koop Mast freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-01-24 20:20:19 UTC 
This looks like a difference between the passwd program on Linux and FreeBSD. On FreeBSD I got a "what is your old password" prompt in the terminal I was running the program from. I currently can't figure out what is going on past that.

I was not able to change the password on a debian Linux machine using the mate-about-me program. But the mate desktop didn't hang and neither did the version of mate (1.12) I tested on FreeBSD.
Comment 4 Walter Schwarzenfeld freebsd_triage 2018-01-13 20:36:19 UTC 
Mate has version 1.18.0. Is this still relevant.
Comment 5 rkoberman 2018-01-13 23:28:45 UTC 
(In reply to w.schwarzenfeld from comment #4)
No change from the behavior reported. Still a bug.

I enter my existing password and hit "Authenticate". The end. Console shows "Old Password:" prompt. It does not accept input.
Comment 6 rkoberman 2020-10-12 22:29:12 UTC 
Just to keep this ticket barely alive, this is still an issue with 1.24. System freezes at "Authenticate". On the console, I see "Old Password:". I tried entering the password there, but it echoed and did not fix anything. I had to kill X, logout, and start over to get a session.
Comment 7 Daniel Engberg freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-03-26 14:52:58 UTC 
Gnome Team, can you please have a look at this?