Cannot unlock screen from the lock

[Richard Vickery]

I think I figured the screen-lock out quite by accident: perhaps the
solution that you are looking for is "space-bar then the Enter key"

hope this helps,

Richard


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/06/2013 11:04 AM, Jean Jacques wrote:
>
>>
>> Has any one encountered the problem that the screen cannot back from
>> lock? The new lock screen does not unlock after the password has been
>> entered.
>>
>>
>>
> I've seen similar behaviour in a few situations: when the load on the box
> is extremely high it may take minutes (or tens of minutes if severely
> stressed) for the authentication to complete. I've seen this with runaway
> browsers and other processes chewing memory and CPU time. Typically in this
> case the password dialog is also slow to appear and the cursor may be laggy
> and unresponsive.
>
> The other one that comes to mind is a problem with authentication itself -
> if using network auth then a problem with the network or backend service
> may cause unlock delays. This should be less of a problem with local
> authentication.
>
> Finally, you might have a deadlock or task blocked on IO - for e.g. a
> kernel or driver bug or some storage device. I've seen this with file
> system bugs for e.g. when some IO never completes.
>
> Depending on where things are stuck you may be able to switch to a virtual
> terminal, log in, and debug from there.
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.
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