https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473247
Bug ID: 473247
Summary: "The screen locker is broken and unlocking it is not
possible" - plus Ctrl+Alt+F1 does not open virtual
console
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.27.6
Platform: Manjaro
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: critical
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: php4...@gmail.com
CC: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Target Milestone: 1.0
Created attachment 160890
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
There are no steps to reproduce at will, but here's what I did
1. Nothing, just wait for the screen to lock
2. shake the mouse to unlock the screen
OBSERVED RESULT
I got this black screen with this error message:
(oh come on, no copy-pasting images?? FFS, ok, see attachment)
The error message said: "Switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1)..."
so I tried that but it would do nothing. So I had to reboot and lose all my
unsaved work.
After I rebooted, the desktop was black, so I had to kill and restart
plasmashell ("killall plasmashell" followed by "kstart5 plasmashell". There's a
separate bug report about that, been happening for years, I thought it had been
fixed already but apparentlty not).
So now I thought I'd try Ctrl+Alt+F1 and found out that never brings up the
virtual console. It just freezes the current screen and renders it
unresponsive (so useful!!), and Ctrl+Alt+F2 restores it. So it occurred to me
to try Ctrl+Alt+F3 and that does work. Unfortunately I hadn't thought about
that when I needed it.
EXPECTED RESULT
First, the screen locker should never crash or become unable to unlock to begin
with. If the screen locker is not 100% rock-solid, unbreakable, crash-proof,
then just toss it, and when I try to lock the screen just say "Sorry, we don't
lock the screen anymore because we haven't figured out a way to do it in a safe
manner".
Second, Ctrl+Alt+F1 should open a virtual console. That's a pretty universal
convention. I could understand if there were different conventions and you had
something more interesting and useful to assign to Ctrl+Alt+F1, but freezing
the screen and making the mouse cursor disappear doesn't seem to be that.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.108.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.1.38-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz
Memory: 7.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 81WE
System Version: IdeaPad 3 15IIL05
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