Howdy not unlocking from the Cinnamon lock screen

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Hello, I am a user on Linux Mint 22.1 and after much issue, I finally got Howdy working at login and on sudo... mostly.

It works when on the user select screen (login screen) but when I suspend or close the lid of my laptop or whatever, it brings me to the Cinnamon screensaver lock screen (using lightDM, I think). When attempting to log in there, it flashes "Recognized as [name]" for a split second, and then it doesn't work and asks for my password. When I attempt to type the password in, it says "checking" for a while and then resets, and the process is repeated. I have to go to the switch user screen to log into my desktop now, no matter what.

Sometimes when attempting to type the password or brute force or whatever the message of recognition shows up and stays there, until of course it resets and the process starts again. I am also unable to use my password to log into the user-select screen; the only way is with Howdy and similar behavior happens to the other screen there when I block the camera until I use my face. Sudo still works and if it fails the face, the password still works, which is weird.

When installing, I did have to use the .deb package downloaded from my browser instead of just the terminal or it wouldn't install properly, and to get it to activate at all anywhere, I had to change the ConfigParser line in the pam.py file to "import configparser as ConfigParser" to work with the newer version of python. Not sure if that's relevant, but figured I'd include it anyway.

As a temporary way to make it so I can... you know... get into the laptop I have done what I found here but that essentially just disables howdy on the lock screen for me, which is obviously not the point of Howdy. I have saved what it had before so if we figure it out, I can change it back. Before, it had
auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_python.so /lib/security/howdy/pam.py
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass

If you need any information I have forgotten to include, please just let me know; I'd be happy to give it.

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I've searched for similar issues already, and my issue has not been reported yet. Similar issues have been, but after going through every one I could find, none worked.

Linux Mint 22.1

Howdy version 2.6.1