initial login freezes up laptop with howdy enabled

[alwzfolwd]

I was able to install and configure howdy just fine and it works just fine for any authentication other than the login screen. Upon entering the login screen howdy does not scan for a face so i enter my password instead. After entering my password howdy then initiates a face scan (i know because my webcam light turns on when howdy is started). The screen then freezes up and im not able to do anything. The only way i was able to log into my pc was to open a terminal from the login screen and disable howdy. The funny thing is that in order to get into the terminal i had to authenticate and howdy initialized and logged me in no problem. So, to me it seems to be a login screen issue, im currently using sddm, im not sure if that makes a difference or not. I'm probably wrong, just a hypothesis.

I tried sudo chmod o+x /lib/security/howdy/dlib-data/ from issue #431 with no errors and still the problem persists.

Operating System: Kali GNU/Linux 2021.4 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.0-kali4-amd64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-1005G1 CPU @ 1.20GHz Memory: 7.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics

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I've searched for similar issues already, and my issue has not been reported yet.

Linux distribution (if applicable):Operating System: Kali GNU/Linux 2021.4

Howdy version (sudo howdy version):Howdy 2.6.1

[dovepa]

same bug on dell xps 9510

[WertsMarc]

same here, Dell XPS 13 9310

[boltgolt]

Anything logged in /var/log/auth.log for any of you?

[WertsMarc]

auth.log:

Feb  7 14:43:13 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: New seat seat0.
Feb  7 14:43:13 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Power Button)
Feb  7 14:43:13 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (Lid Switch)
Feb  7 14:43:13 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event7 (Intel HID events)
Feb  7 14:43:13 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event8 (Intel HID 5 button array)
Feb  7 14:43:13 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
Feb  7 14:43:15 XPS-MWe sddm-helper: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0)
Feb  7 14:43:15 XPS-MWe systemd-logind[1297]: New session 1 of user sddm.
Feb  7 14:43:15 XPS-MWe systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0)
Feb  7 14:43:21 XPS-MWe [HOWDY]: Attempting facial authentication for user mwerts
Feb  7 14:43:26 XPS-MWe [HOWDY]: Failure, timeout reached
Feb  7 14:43:27 XPS-MWe sddm-helper: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Feb  7 14:43:27 XPS-MWe sddm-helper: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session
Feb  7 14:43:27 XPS-MWe sddm-helper: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_authenticate
Feb  7 14:43:27 XPS-MWe sddm-helper: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Feb  7 14:43:27 XPS-MWe sddm-helper: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user mwerts by (uid=0)

[boltgolt]

Log looks good, howdy does what it should. Any modifications to the lockscreen?

[adelavega]

+1 on this issue. The weight thing is this didn't used to happen, and now there is a long delay or it requires a password to be typed before it tries to launch howdy

[techonerd]

+1 to this issue. Facing this on Kali Linux. It works fine for sudo auth. But for login, it asks for a password and then initiates the face recognition. I am able to see the snaps of login in /usr/lib/security/howdy/snapshots