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The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program
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"Lock screen" does not show password prompt (does not let me in too) #263

Open cronfy opened 6 years ago

cronfy commented 6 years ago 
 * cinnamon-screensaver 3.4.2
 * Distribution - Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used - `video 40960  1 i915_bpo`
 * 64 bit

Issue

Sometimes when I lock screen and then try to unlock it, I press any key or move mouse, but password prompt does not appear - only mouse cursor appears on the screen.

I can't log in. If I blindly type password, I do not login also.

I can resolve this only by switching to text console and killing cinnamon-screensaver.

What information should I collect to debug this situation?

sowbug commented 1 year ago

Drive-by comment for anyone else in this situation: check to make sure you didn't accidentally uninstall x11-utils. I had an apt autoremove go haywire, and I spent a while putting the pieces back together. Among other things, I discovered that x11-utils supplies something called xprop, which cinnamon-screensaver/cs-backup-locker needs to start the lockscreen unlocking flow.

claudiux commented 1 year ago

Maybe add x11-utils to the dependencies list for cinnamon-screensaver package?