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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:23 am    Post subject: "The screen lock is broken..." [solved] Reply with quote
Running KDE.

Randomly (every few days - far too often), when returning to my computer, I see a black screen with the message:

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The screen lock is broken and unlocking is not possible any more.
In order to unlock switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F2),
log in and execute the command:

loginctl unlock-sessions

Afterwards switch back to the running session (Ctrl+Alt+F7).


There is no loginctl command (or any file with that name) on the computer.

Any idea where I can find it (and any idea for what is causing this, and how to prevent it)?

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
loginctl is a systemd thing. If you don't have it you're probably not using systemd.

There is a bug here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360489


I don't use kde so that's all I know :D


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
See can't unlock KDE session, loginctl req. but this is openrc (especially the post by julgo in that thread).
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
russK wrote:
loginctl is a systemd thing. If you don't have it you're probably not using systemd.


You are correct - systemd is OMDBware (meaning over my dead body will it ever be installed on any of my machines).

Fitzcarraldo wrote:
See can't unlock KDE session, loginctl req. but this is openrc (especially the post by julgo in that thread).


Great help. Thank you very much.
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