On 01/06/2012 01:28 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
I've noticed that occasionally the authentication box doesn't
come up, but you can still type in your password and press enter
to unlock the session. I suspect killing the screensaver
process from another tty would get you in as well.
hmmmm. Considering what <alt-F2>r was doing, this might have
worked. Will watch for it next time.
I haven't bothered to track down the cause, but I know the
issue isn't unique to Fedora. My wife discovered the problem
and solution on her laptop loaded with Ubuntu.
Hth,
--pete
On Jan 6, 2012 10:45 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" < rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This happens once in a while, but this is the 2nd time this
week, though the symtoms were different.
The latest occurance, I locked the screen <ctl-alt-l>
and came back later to use the system. I hit an arrow key
which normally brings up the password dialog box and even
before the box showed up I started typing in my password.
This normailly works fine and opens up to the workspace I was
last on.
This time nothing happened. There was a flash across the
screen like the dialog box coming up, but the screen stayed
black other than the portion of the top panel that normally
shows when the screen is locked. I was able to
<ctl-alt-F2> to another console and back. I tried
<alt-F1> then 'r' and saw the spindizzy but nothing
after that. In the end, I rebooted by logging into the F2
console. Perhaps I should have done a tail on messages first?
Various things have happened over the past month on f16 with
gnome 3. Not coming out of suspend and having to ppull all
power for a hard boot recovery (AC and battery). Gnome
locking on me with no keyboard or mouse clicks, though the
mouse will mouse around.
So it is still unstable for me.
Advise on trouble shooting?
Oh, and to the point of pulling the battery to get to a hard
boot state..... My brother-in-law was talking about his
recent purchase of a notebook with a sealed battery; ie he
cannot remove it. His question was on which kind of warranty
to get. But now my question is: does anyone have a notebook
with a sealed battery and if so, how do they recover when
nothing works? When you cannot switch to another console and
the power button does nothing? How do you force a boot if you
can't pull all power?
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