Cannot lock screen (solved)

[Emmett Culley]

On 06/28/2012 09:14 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 28.06.2012 18:11, schrieb Emmett Culley:
>> I just updated my workstation to the latest and rebooted.  When I logged in the screen lock did not work, and
>> krunner was running:
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>> [emmett at ws1 ~]$ ps aux| grep krunner
>> emmett    2426  0.0  0.0 109400   844 pts/2    S+   09:02   0:00 grep --color=auto krunner
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>> Then I ran krunner from the console
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> krunner was NOT running
> review your outout
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> the only line with krunner is your grep himself
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That was the clue I needed.  Turns out that I had unchecked krunner in the system settings startup dialog, as is my usual practice for programs I don't know how or why.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

Emmett