Cannot unlock screen from the lock

[Jean Jacques]

Will try it but seems just happens under Gnome-Shell.


2013/2/7 Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com>

> 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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