f22 screensaver/lockout issue requiring reboot :/

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jun 10 14:01:31 UTC 2015


On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 06/10/2015 09:04 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> Am I the only one who is constantly locked out of their X session on
>> fedora 22? Once the screen locks, it refuses my actual password to
>> unlock. Even killing X with ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't help because
>> it will just startup again in locked screen mode. I basically have
>> to reboot every time my screen locks. And yes, the screensaver
>> preferences even have "lock screen after" unselected but my screen
>> gets locked anyway.
> I've seen a similar thing happen in a recent Ubuntu install. Try to
> 'select other user' and select yourself again. Does the password work then?

Not sure if this is the same issue or related to your issues, but I 
couldn't ssh into machines which were upgraded from f21 to f22.

In my case, "touch /.autorelabel" and rebooting to force an 
SELinux-relabel helped, which makes me believe SELinux was to blame.

Ralf






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