The same happened to me when I upgraded from Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 to 15.10 few days ago. I tried to kill the lock screen but could not find how. I did a restart to fix it.
--- Regards, Usama On 25-02-2016 12:13, Kristian Rink wrote: > Folks; > > just dist-upgraded one of my 15.10 machines to current 16.04 repos. > Overally, things work pretty smooth but things got a bit messy during > upgrade: I left my computer unattended for a while. When I got back, > the GNOME screen was locked. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to unlock > again, being presented with an unlock screen and a yellow "login > failed" message. The unlock screen, then, would reload all 2..3 > seconds, not even leaving enough time to enter my actual password. > > Is this a known issue? Or is this just me? > TIA, > Kristian > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
